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MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, Zoom to Martian North Pole: True Color
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    Zoom to see the topography of the Martian north pole in true color from an intitial global view
Duration: 14.0 seconds
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True color image of the north pole of Mars    True color image of the north pole of Mars

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True color image of a global view of Mars    True color image of a global view of Mars

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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.'

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Animation Number:2292
Completed:2001-12-06
Animator:Cindy Starr (GST) (Lead)
Scientists:David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
 Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets:MGS/MOC
 MGS/MOLA (1997/09/15-1998/11)
 Viking (1976)
Series:Mars Seasonal Snow Variations
Video:SVS2001-0031 *
Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Flyover
SVS >> Mars
SVS >> Snow
DLESE >> Space science
More Information on this topic available at:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011206molaice.html
Science paper:http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html
 
 
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.


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