PIA02050: North Polar Magnetic Anomaly Map (MAG/ER)
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a radial magnetic field measured at about 170-km altitude over the North Polar Region with the corresponding image showing the North Polar Cap.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  Magnetometer 
 Product Size:  1700 x 1144 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Goddard Space Flight Center 
 Addition Date:  1999-06-23 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02050.tif (1.938 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02050.jpg (213.7 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Radial magnetic field measured at about 170-km altitude over the North Polar Region with the corresponding image showing the North Polar Cap.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/GSFC

Image Addition Date:
1999-06-23