PIA02816: Mars Albedo
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two views of Mars derived from MGS Thermal Emission Spectrometer measurements of global broadband (0.3 - ~3.0 microns) visible and near-infrared reflectance, also known as albedo.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  Thermal Emission Spectrometer 
 Product Size:  4000 x 2769 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02816.tif (20.01 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02816.jpg (715.4 kB)  

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These two views of Mars are derived from the MGS Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) measurements of global broadband (0.3 - ~3.0 microns) visible and near-infrared reflectance, also known as albedo. The range of colors are in dimensionless units. The values are the ratio of the amount of electromagnetic energy reflected by the surface to the amount of energy incident upon it from the sun (larger values are brighter surfaces).

The TES instrument was built by Santa Barbara Remote Sensing and is operated by Philip R. Christensen, of Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2001-01-17