PIA02060: Radio-Occultation Profiles (RS)
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows vertical temperature and pressure structure observed in the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  Radio Science Subsystem 
 Product Size:  1700 x 2200 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Stanford University 
 Addition Date:  1999-06-23 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02060.tif (109.9 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02060.jpg (175.3 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Vertical temperature and pressure structure observed in the northern and southern hemispheres. Upper panel for Ls = 270 (northern winter); lower panel for Ls=70 (southern winter), dashed line is freezing line for CO2 ice.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Stanford University

Image Addition Date:
1999-06-23