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PIA02818: Mars Thermal Inertia

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the global thermal inertia of the Martian surface as measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer instrument.

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:	PIA02818.tif (21.3 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA02818.jpg (883.2 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image shows the global thermal inertia of the Martian surface as measured by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) instrument on the Mars Global Surveyor. The data were acquired during the first 5000 orbits of the MGS mapping mission. The pattern of inertia variations observed by TES agrees well with the thermal inertia maps made by the Viking Infrared Thermal Mapper experiment, but the TES data shown here are at significantly higher spatial resolution (15 km versus 60 km).

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