Mars Orbiter
Mars Express
Mars Express is currently about 280,397,828 kilometres from Earth, or 1.874 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 15.6 minutes out. It is 1.514 astronomical units from the Sun.
Europe’s first planetary mission, still imaging Mars in 3D and sounding for subsurface water after more than two decades in orbit.
Its radar found signs of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 280,397,828 km (1.874 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 226,470,747 km (1.514 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 15.6 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Operational
- Operator
- ESA
- Launched
- 2003
- Operating
- Mars