MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, Zoom to Martian North Pole: True Color

  • Released Thursday, December 6, 2001
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This is a visualization of the topography near the Martian north pole as measured with the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows a short zoom to an overhead view of the rotating north pole in true color.

Zoom to see the topography of the Martian north pole in true color from an intitial global view

True color image of the north pole of Mars

True color image of the north pole of Mars

True color image of a global view of Mars

True color image of a global view of Mars

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Zoom on Martian North Pole using the MOLA Topography. Done in support of Seasonal Snow Variation story in Science.'

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Zoom on Martian North Pole using the MOLA Topography. Done in support of Seasonal Snow Variation story in Science.'

For More Information

See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011206molaice.html

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Mars Orbiter Camera data Courtesy of NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems.

This page was originally published on Thursday, December 6, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

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