Planets and Moons ID: 2291

FUSE/MOLA: Mars Once had Oceans

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on December 4, 2001

This visualization shows how Mars might look with an ocean at -500m where the lowest point on Mars is about -8000m and the highest point is about 22000m. Data from The FUSE spacecraft and from the Mars Global Surveyor/MOLA instrument where used to support this theory.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Vladimir Krasnopolsky (Catholic University of America): Scientist
Paul Feldman (Johns Hopkins University): Scientist

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
Science: November 30

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Missions:
FUSE
Mars Global Surveyor - MGS
Viking

Data Used:

MGS/MOLA

1997/09/15-2001/06/30

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Viking

1976

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FUSE

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This item is part of this series:
Mars Oceans

Goddard TV Tape:
G2001-082

Keywords:
SVS >> Mars
DLESE >> Physical oceanography
DLESE >> Space science
SVS >> Water
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Oceans
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0