MOLA Stills for possible cover of 'Nature'
These are draft renders of Mars using MOLA data for Topography and Viking data (true color) for the surface texture. One of these was picked and used by Nature on the cover of 'Insight' on 12 July 2001. The same image was used on the cover of the Planetary Report July/August 2001.
Mars MOLA true color image of Kasei Valles looking west to east (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Alba Patera looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Lyot looking north to south (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Elysium Mons looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Tharsis Montes looking east to west (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Aram Chaos looking east to west (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of 'the dragon's tail' looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA false color image of Kasei Valles looking west to east
Mars MOLA false color image of Kasei Valles looking east to west
Mars MOLA false color image of Olympus Mons looking west to east
Mars MOLA false color image of Argyre Planitia looking east to west
Mars MOLA true color image of Argyre Planitia looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 4x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Argyre Planitia looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 4x) Used as cover for Nature Insight and Planetary Report
Mars MOLA true color image of Argyre Planitia looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 4x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Argyre Planitia looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 4x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Kasei Valles looking west to east (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Olympus Mons looking west to east (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Alba Patera looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Lyot looking north to south (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Elysium Mons looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Tharsis Montes looking east to west (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of Aram Chaos looking east to west (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Mars MOLA true color image of the dragons tail looking south to north (vertical exaggeration 3x, shading 6x)
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Release date
This page was originally published on Saturday, December 1, 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:Papers used in this visualization
Nature, Vol 412, 12 July 2001 and The Planetary Report, July/August 2001
Datasets used in this visualization
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[MGS: MOLA]
ID: 59 -
[Viking]
ID: 130
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