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MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, clouds at both poles, with dates, with contours
This is a visualization of the clouds near the Marian polar caps measured using the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows both poles, with dates,

and with countours.


Animation showing seasonal Mars cloud variations (with contours and dates) showing both poles    Animation showing seasonal Mars cloud variations (with contours and dates) showing both poles
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Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum north pole extent    Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum north pole extent

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Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum south pole extent    Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum south pole extent

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Animation Number:2311
Animator:Greg Shirah (Lead)
Studio:SVS
Completed:2001-11-30
Scientists:David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
 Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Instruments:MGS/MOLA
 Viking
Data Collected:1997/09/15-2001/06/30
Series:Mars Seasonal Snow Variations
Video:SVS2001-0030 *
Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Frost
SVS >> Mars
SVS >> Pole
SVS >> Snow
DLESE >> Space science
Science paper:http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html
 
 
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