MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars: Slow Flyover of the Martian North Pole: False Color

  • Released Thursday, December 6, 2001
View full credits

This is a visualization of the topography near the Martian north pole as measured with the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows a slow zoom to the surface of the pole, a flyover of the polar cap and a slow zoom out. The surface color is based on the elevation of the topography.

Slow zoom to the surface of the north pole of mars and a flyover of the polar cap showing the topography colored by elevation

The surface of the north pole of Mars shown colored by elevation

The surface of the north pole of Mars shown colored by elevation

An overhead view of the north pole of Mars shown colored by elevation

An overhead view of the north pole of Mars shown colored by elevation

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Flyover of Martian North Pole Using MOLA Topography. Done in support of Seasonal Snow Variation story in Science.'

Slate title from video tape reads, 'Flyover of Martian North Pole Using MOLA Topography. Done in support of Seasonal Snow Variation story in Science.'

For More Information

See http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011206molaice.html

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, December 6, 2001.
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:

Papers used in this visualization

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html

Datasets used in this visualization

Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.