PIA02983: Mariner 9 views of shield volcano
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mariner Mars 1971 (Mariner 9) 
 Spacecraft:  Mariner 9
 Product Size:  2701 x 2116 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  P12734
 Addition Date:  2000-11-04
 Primary Data Set:  MARINER71_PAGE
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02983.tif (4.705 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02983.jpg (516.3 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

A Martian shield volcano, approximately 25 miles across at the crater, photographed consecutively by Mariner 9 with the wide-angle and telephoto lenses. The summit crater and groves down the flank probably were produced by subsidence flowing subsurface movement of magma.

Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. The spacecraft was designed to continue the atmospheric studies begun by Mariners 6 and 7, and to map over 70% of the Martian surface from the lowest altitude (1500 kilometers [900 miles]) and at the highest resolutions (1 kilometer per pixel to 100 meters per pixel) of any previous Mars mission

Mariner 9 was launched on May 30, 1971 and arrived on November 14, 1971.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2000-11-04