Earth  Planets and Moons  ID: 2868

Earth-Mars Volcano Comparisons: True Color Mars

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on April 22, 2004
Despite the 2:1 relative size difference between Earth and Mars, the Martian volcano, Olympus Mons, dwarfs Earth's Mauna Loa, Hawaii volcano. When measured from the ocean floor, Mauna Loa is approximately 10km. high compared to Olympus Mons at 23km. This animation is one element of the Earth-Mars comparison, showing Mars in it's true color beauty. The beginning of this animation is match-framed to animations #2864 through #2872.
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Animation starts with a true color full planet view of Mars and slowly zooms down to Olympus Mons.
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True color Mars (using Viking data) as seen from space.
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A close-up view of Olympus Mons. 1x exaggeration.

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University): Scientist
James Garvin (NASA/HQ): Scientist
Herbert Frey (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, and Virginia Butcher (SSAI)

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Missions:
Mars Global Surveyor - MGS
Viking

Data Used:
MGS/MOLA/Topography
1997/09/15-2001/01/31
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Viking/Images/True Color
1976/06/19-1980/08/17
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This item is part of this series:
Earth-Mars Comparisons

Keywords:
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Mars >> Olympus Mons
SVS >> Earth >> Volcanoes >> Mauna Loa
SVS >> Earth-Mars Comparisons
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Mars >> Topography
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons