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PIA02817: Mars Gravity Anomoly Map
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a vertical gravity map of Mars color-coded in mgals based on radio tracking.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Product Size:  4000 x 2769 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02817.tif (16.6 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02817.jpg (619.8 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This is a vertical gravity map of Mars color-coded in mgals based on radio tracking. Note correlations and lack of correlations with the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) global topography.

This map was created using MGS data under the direction of Bill Sjogren, a member of the MGS Radio Science Team. The Radio Science Team is led by G. Leonard Tyler of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2001-01-17