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PIA00192: Center is at Latitude 30 Degrees North, Longitude 30 Degrees
The north polar residual ice cap, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs, is located at the top in this view from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Viking 
 Spacecraft:  Viking Orbiter 1
 Instrument:  Visual Imaging Subsystem - Camera A 
 Product Size:  6787 x 6787 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  U.S. Geological Survey 
 Producer ID:  P43560  
 Addition Date:  1998-06-08 
 Primary Data Set:  Viking EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00192.tif (65.4 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00192.jpg (2.107 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Center of the orthographic projection is at latitude 30 degrees N., longitude 30 degrees. The north polar residual ice cap, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs, is located at the top. The central part is characterized by a dark depression, Chryse basin, where several large outflow channels terminate. The lower-left corner is marked by a vast system of canyons, Valles Marineris, which extends eastward for several thousand kilometers.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/USGS

Image Addition Date:
1998-06-08