Mars Odyssey: Water Ice/Winter Observations
NASA's Mars Odyssey detected water ice in the northern hemisphere. During the winter months, the icy soil is covered by a thick layer of carbon dioxide ('dry ice') frost obscuring the water ice signature.
This animation is match-framed to animation #2778 and animation #2780. It shows the areas of ice during a martian winter.
Animation tilting down to show the northern hemisphere of Mars during winter.
A comparison of the water ice detected by Odyssey in northern summer and winter seasons. In some places the water ice content is more than 90 percent by volume.
Blue colors indicate water ice observed by Odyssey during the northern winter months, when carbon-dioxide covers the surface.
Video slate image reads "Mars Odyssey: Water Ice/Winter Observations
Blue colors indicate water ice observed by Odyssey during the northern winter months, when carbon-dioxide covers the surface."
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, July 3, 2003.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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High Energy Neutron [Mars Odyssey: GRS]
ID: 347 -
Topography [MGS: MOLA]
ID: 352
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