MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, clouds at both poles, with dates, without 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 without contours.
Animation of seasonal Mars cloud variations (without contours and with dates) showing both poles
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
Scientists
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Release date
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
[MGS: MOLA]
ID: 59[Viking]
ID: 130
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