This amoeba-shaped depression on Mars, called Orcus Patera, has had planetary scientists scratching their heads for decades. Despite these sharp new images from the European Space Agency's Mars ...

Look all you want, you’ll not find the name Ogre’s Bowl on any maps of Mars that you can find. Sure, the place is real, but like most other places on the planet, it doesn’t go by the Google ...

This crater, known as Orcus Patera, is a strange, elliptical crater located near Mars’s equator. Roughly 240 miles long by 90 miles wide, its elongated shape doesn’t fit with standard models of crater ...

Photos just released by the European Space Agency give an up-close look at the strange, elongated Martian crater known as Orcus Patera. The crater lies near the equator in Mars' eastern hemisphere, ...

Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a ...

Orcus Patera, an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet, has baffled scientists for a long time now. The term 'patera' is used for deep, complex ...

Scientists have been left baffled by a long strange scar on the surface of Mars, close to the planet’s equator. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new images of Orcus Patera - an elongated ...

Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons. This well-defined depression extends approximately 380 km by 140 km in a NNE–SSW ...

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ESA: Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars’s equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation ...

Orcus Patera is an enigmatic elliptical depression near Mars's equator, in the eastern hemisphere of the planet. Located between the volcanoes of Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons, its formation remains a ...