Planets and Moons ID: 1105

Mars Crust Thickness

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on February 15, 2000

Looking at a slice of Mars. The slice depicts Mars from south (left) to north (right). Notice the downward trend from right to left, showing that Mars is mostly downhill from North to South.

Video slate image reads, "A bird's eye view of a flat map of Mars. Zooming down and revealing a strip of data that shows the crust thicker in the south than the north."

For More Information

http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/MOLA/index.html

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
David Smith (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Mars Global Surveyor - MGS

Data Used:

MGS/MOLA

2000/03/10

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This item is part of these series:
MOLA
Subsurface Mars

Keywords:
SVS >> MOHO
SVS >> Mars
DLESE >> Space science
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons

Places you might have seen this:
Planetary Report, July/August 2000, pp.12-13