Mars Express mission picture infographic
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Mars Express mission picture

October 22, 2002 - Picture shows 3 cubic cm sample of Ferrari's distinctive red paint "Rosso Corsa" , nicknamed FRED, which will accompany the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft when it heads to the Red Planet. The sample, which will speed to Mars at some 10,780km/h 6,700 miles) per hour, is contained within a specially constructed glass globe, 2cm in diameter, and sealed into a PMMA polymethyl metacrylate) block.

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PUBLISHED: 22/10/2002; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: European Space Agency
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