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PIA04606: Frosty Mountains

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an early southern spring view of the frost-covered Charitum Montes, south of Argyre Planitia on Mars.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Spacecraft:	Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Instrument:	Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
Product Size:	540 x 810 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Malin Space Science Systems
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA04606.tif (904.1 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA04606.jpg (28.75 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-409, 2 July 2003

The Mars Picture of the Day for June 10, 2003, showed an early southern spring view of the frost-covered Charitum Montes, south of Argyre Planitia. Today's picture shows some of the same mountain range, as it appeared in early June 2003 when viewed the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide angle cameras. This perspective view was created by combining MOC red and blue camera images with topographic data from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), another instrument onboard MGS. The bright areas are surfaces covered by frost. The picture is located near 57°S, 43°W. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper left. North, and Argyre Planitia, are toward the top.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:

2003-07-02