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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image is the first of a sequence of Mars to be taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter Camera (MOC) between August 19 and August 21, 1997.
PIA00929:
MGS Approach Image - 172.4° W Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-09-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image, the last in sequence of 8 taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft prior to its arrival at Mars on September 11, 1997, shows a spectacular view of the large volcano, Olympus Mons, very close to the morning sunrise line.
PIA00936:
MGS Approach Image - 127.2° W Longitude
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-11-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This laser altimeter profile across Olympus Mons volcano is from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA01011:
Olympus Mons Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-04-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This view from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons, the largest of the major Tharsis volcanoes on the red planet.
PIA00993:
Olympus Mons in Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Four faces of Mars as seen on March 30, 1997 are presented in this montage of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images. Proceeding in the order upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, lower-right, Mars has rotated about ninety degrees.
PIA01248:
Four Views of Mars in Northern Summer
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Pictures of the planet Mars taken with the recently refurbished NASA Hubble Space Telescope will provide the most detailed global view of the red planet ever obtained from Earth. The images were taken by HST's Wide Field Planetary Camera-2.
PIA01250:
Hubble Captures A Full Rotation Of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Two NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars, taken about a month apart on September 18 and October 15, 1996, reveal a state-sized dust storm churning near the edge of the Martian north polar cap.
PIA01251:
Springtime Dust Storm Swirls at Martian North Pole
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-05-02 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views provide the most detailed complete global coverage of the red planet Mars ever seen from Earth. The pictures were taken on February 25, 1995, when Mars was at a distance of 65 million miles.
PIA01252:
Mars At Opposition
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-03 Mars Viking
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This mosaic is composed of 104 images from NASA's Viking Orbiter acquired on February 11, 1980. At that time, it was early northern summer on Mars.
PIA00091:
Cerberus Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
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Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-2 quadrangle, Diacria region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
PIA00162:
MC-2 Diacria Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Mars Viking
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Shown here is a digital mosaic of Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the Solar System, as seen by NASA's Viking Orbiter 1. Much of the plains surrounding the volcano are covered by the ridged and grooved 'aureole' of Olympus Mons.
PIA00300:
Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Venus Magellan
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This perspective view of Venus, generated by computer from NASA's Magellan data and color-coded with emissivity, shows part of the lowlands to the north of Ovda Regio. The prominent topographic feature is a shield volcano.
PIA00308:
Magellan's Perspective View of Ovda Regio, 15° N, 77° E
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-05 Mars Viking
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Mars digital-image mosaic merged with color of the MC-8 quadrangle, Amazonis region of Mars. This image is from NASA's Viking Orbiter 1.
PIA00168:
MC-8 Amazonis Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Mars Viking
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NASA's Viking Orbiter 1 spies the north polar residual ice cap, which is cut by spiral-patterned troughs and surrounded by the dark lowland plains of Vastitas Borealis, Mars is located at the top.
PIA00197:
Center is at Latitude 30 Degrees North, Longitude 150 Degrees
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Mars Viking
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The Tharsis region of Mars; north toward top. This scene shows the Tharsis bulge, a huge ridge covered by the 3 large aligned Tharsis Montes shield volcanoes (from lower l to r): Arsia, Pavonis, and Ascraeus Mons as seen by NASA's Viking spacecraft.
PIA00408:
Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Mars Viking
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The Alba Patera region of Mars; north toward top. This scene shows a central circular depression surrounded by splays of fractures, named Alba Fossae and Tantalus Fossae, as seen by NASA's Viking spacecraft.
PIA00409:
Alba Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor's provided this hemispheric view of the northern Tharsis region on June 1, 1998. Seen here are the giant volcano, Olympus Mons, and the volcanoe, Ascraeus Mons. Alba Patera, is lurking under the haze and clouds.
PIA01435:
Winter Morning in Northern Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on July 4, 1998. Shown here is Elysium Mons, one of three large volcanoes that occur on the Elysium Rise.
PIA01455:
Elysium Mons Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on July 2, 1998. Shown here is is the Elysium volcanic region on Mars' red surface.
PIA01457:
Elysium Mons Volcanic Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image taken on August 22, 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small volcano is located in the Tempe-Mareotis Fossae region of Tempe Terra on Mars.
PIA01468:
Small Volcano in Tempe Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a topography map of the vast east-west trending Valles Marineris canyon system and several major volcanic shields including Olympus Mons.
PIA02031:
Maps of Mars Global Topography
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this view of Mars taking advantage of the space-based observatory's close approach to Mars, centering on the region known as Tharsis, home of the largest volcanoes in the solar system.
PIA01590:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01591:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - Elysium
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-23 Mars Hubble Space Telescope
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Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet.
PIA01587:
A Closer Hubble Encounter With Mars - 4 Views
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-11-19 Io Galileo
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Unusual mountains on Jupiter's moon Io are shown in these images that were captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its close Io flyby. The top four pictures show four different mountains at resolutions of about 500 meters per picture element.
PIA02513:
Collapsing Mountains on Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars including surfaces mantled by fine dust and pocked by small impact craters, and no surfaces exhibit fresh, dark lava flows. Olympus Mons is not an active volcano.
PIA02392:
A Traverse Across the Summit of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small windblown dunes at the base of a slope in Lycus Sulci on Mars that have been over-ridden by more recent dark streaks (arrows).
PIA02357:
Dark Streaks Over-riding Inactive Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wide area along the edge of the hilly, Gigas Sulci terrain on Mars with several troughs that look something like gashes made by a giant knife.
PIA02326:
Diverse Geologic Features of Western Tharsis, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes known on Mars. This shield volcano is part of an aligned trio known as the Tharsis Montes, the others are Pavonis Mons and Ascraeus Mons.
PIA02337:
Wide Angle View of Arsia Mons Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the shadow of the martian moon, Phobos, as it was cast upon western Xanthe Terra on August 26, 1999.
PIA02342:
MOC Views of Martian Solar Eclipses
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the contact between the Lycus Sulci uplands and Amazonis Planitia lowlands on Mars.
PIA02338:
Mars Shoreline Tests: Contact between Lycus Sulci and Amazonis Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the lower south flank of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars; lava flows with leveed central channels and a variety of surface textures are present. The picture was taken in July 1998.
PIA02080:
Olympus Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the volcanoes of the Tharsis region on Mars. The white or bluish-white features are clouds. Clouds are common over the larger Tharsis volcanoes in mid-afternoon.
PIA02049:
Regional View of the Tharsis Volcanoes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows northern summer on Mars where clouds are very common over the famous Tharsis volcanoes during the afternoon.
PIA02005:
Tharsis Volcanoes and Valles Marineris, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the volcanic Tharsis region, including these valleys and associated lava flows on the plains southeast of Olympus Mons. Lava flows are visible, but meandering valleys with streamlined 'islands' dominate the scene.
PIA01689:
Valleys and Lava Flows near Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two views of Olympus Mons on Mars featuring the volcano's scarp and massive aureole deposit that was produced by flank collapse.
PIA02805:
Major Martian Volcanoes from MOLA - Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars featuring the volcano's scarp and massive aureole deposit that was produced by flank collapse.
PIA02806:
Major Martian Volcanoes from MOLA - Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image taken on August 9, 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Vastitas Borealis (the Northern Vastness), the name given to the enigmatic northern plains of Mars.
PIA01467:
Seeing Mars' Northern Plains Through Springtime Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor taken in April 1998 shows the floor of Elysium Basin revealing that the basin floor is covered with lava, not lake sediment. The surface texture of this lava includes broken up giant plates.
PIA01494:
Ancient Lakes on Mars? Results for Elysium Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor acquired this image on July 4, 1998. Shown here is Elysium Mons, one of three large volcanoes that occur on the Elysium Rise.
PIA01456:
Elysium Mons Volcano - Detail of Southern Caldera Wall and Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image taken on April 25, 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons, a mountain on Mars. About as wide as the entire Hawaiian Island chain, this giant volcano is nearly as flat as a pancake.
PIA01476:
Olympus Mons, 1998 (Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-10-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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A global surface map from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a heavily cratered terrain in Mars' southern hemisphere as well as that of the Valles Marineris canyon walls and the Olympus Mons aureole deposits.
PIA02808:
MOLA Global Roughness Map of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-04 Mars Viking
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Color mosaic of Olympus Mons volcano on Mars from NASA's Viking 1 Orbiter. The mosaic was created using images from orbit 735 taken 22 June 1978. Olympus Mons is about 600 km in diameter and the summit caldera is 24 km above the surrounding plains.
PIA02982:
Color Mosaic of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-04 Mars Viking
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NASA's Viking Orbiter 1 photomosaic of Olympus Mons summit caldera. The caldera comprises a series of craters formed by repeated collapses after eruptions.
PIA02984:
Photomosiac of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-04 Mars Mariner Mars 1969 (Mariner 7)
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This image from NASA's Mariner 7 shows NIX Olympia (later identified as the giant shield volcano Olympus Mons), and polar caps on Mars.
PIA02981:
Mars full disk approach view from Mariner 7
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-11-22 Mars Mariner Mars 1971 (Mariner 9)
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This image from NASA's Mariner 9 taken on Dec. 17, 1971 is a view of a complex crater on the summit of 'north spot' volcano, Ascraeus Mons
PIA02999:
Mariner 9 views Ascraeus Mons standing above the Martian Dust Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-05-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of Lycus Sulci, a rugged, ridged terrain north of the giant Olympus Mons volcano on Mars. Dark streaks considered to result from the avalanching of dry, fine, bright dust.
PIA03226:
Changes Over a Martian Year -- New Dark Slope Streaks in Lycus Sucli
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a valley running diagonally, the floor of which is covered by windblown dunes. The slopes on either side of the valley show dark streaks of debris that have slid down from the surrounding ridges in Cyane Sulci on Mars.
PIA03178:
MOC's 100,000th Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-03-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This visible-light image, taken by the thermal emission imaging system's camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows the highly fractured, faulted and deformed Acheron Fossae region of Mars.
PIA03481:
Acheron Fossae in Visible Light
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Olympus Mons, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, stands 26 km above the surrounding plains, which is three times taller than Mt. Everest, and is the tallest volcano in the solar system.
PIA03763:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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At the top right of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, the rim of the caldera of Pavonis Mons, one of four exceptionally large volcanoes in the Tharsis region, is barely visible with steep cliffs formed by the collapse of a portion of the volcano's summit.
PIA03790:
Pavonis Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The movement pathways of molten rock, or lava, is demonstrated in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a portion of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system.
PIA03821:
Southeastern Scarp of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This wind-swept region of Amazonis Planitia, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, has been so uniformly dissected into yardangs that only two craters provide any indication that other processes have ever been active on the surface.
PIA04010:
Amazonis Planitia yardangs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The Tharsis Montes region on Mars is a major center of volcanic and tectonic activity. The channel in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey is west of the relatively small volcano called Biblis Patera although it shows no obvious relationship to it.
PIA04020:
Tharsis Grooved Channel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Located north of Olympus Mons and west of Alba Patera, Acheron Fossae, seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, provides a record of early tectonic activity in the Tharsis region.
PIA04034:
Western Portion of Acheron Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this region of the Olympus Mons aureole, located to the southwest of the volcano, the surface has been eroded by the wind into linear landforms called yardangs, which can be seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04036:
Yardangs near Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey of lava flows around the large scarp of Olympus Mons reveals textures characteristic of the variable surface roughness associated with different lava flows in this region.
PIA04039:
Lava Flows around Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Like drippings from a candle, these lava flows on the flank of Olympus Mons volcano, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, demonstrate how it became the largest volcano in the solar system.
PIA04063:
Olympus Mons Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the summit caldera of Pavonis Mons, the middle of three Tharsis volcanos that form a line southeast of Olympus Mons and northwest of Vallis Marineris.
PIA04069:
Pavonis Mons Summit Caldera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Thorium is a naturally radioactive element that exists in rocks and soils in extremely small amounts. The region of highest thorium content, shown in red on this gamma ray spectrometer map from NASA's Mars Odyssey, is in northern Acidalia Planitia.
PIA04257:
Map of Martian Thorium at Mid-Latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, numerous lava flows and fossae (cracks) are visible in a region of Mars located southeast of Olympus Mons. There is also a hint that water may have possibly flowed in the region.
PIA04440:
Gordii Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows 'Lycus Sulci,' a region of ridges and hills located north-northwest of the volcano Olympus Mons. Several dust avalanches on the flanks of the roughly textured surfaces suggest a thick coating of fine-grained materials.
PIA04442:
Lycus Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis region, which includes several very large volcanoes. Olympus Mons, the largest martian volcano.
PIA04272:
Mars in Early Northern Spring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the Olympica Fossae channel system located east of the Olympus Mons volcano in Tharsis. These anastomosing channels cut numerous lava flows indicating that the channels are younger than the lava flows.
PIA04458:
Olympica Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-04-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows several lava flows in Lycus Sulci. Notice the streamlined features near the bottom of the image indicating the flow direction.
PIA04482:
Lycus Sulci
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust storm raging in Syria Planum, south of the Labyrinthus Noctis troughs on Mars. Water ice clouds are present over each of the five largest Tharsis volcanoes.
PIA04527:
Dust Storm in Syria
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This image taken by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows rugged terrain that is part of a massive lobe of material extending from the basal scarp of Mars' Olympus Mons is called sulci, which means furrows or grooves.
PIA04558:
Lycus Sulci
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small ridges known as yardangs located southwest of Olympus Mons near Gordii Dorsum on Mars.
PIA04565:
Terrain Near Gordii Dorsum
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Olympus Mons on Mars is the largest volcano in the Solar System. The surface is rugged, with many overlapping lava flow structures, all of which are mantled by a thick blanket of dust and wind-scoured sediment.
PIA04583:
Flows on Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the four large Tharsis volcanoes on Mars: Olympus Mons, Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons.
PIA04591:
Mars 2003
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in July 2003, roughly halfway between the great volcanoes of Olympus Mons and Pavonis Mons, the graben (troughs) of Ulysses Fossae intersect with the furrows of Gigas (gigantic) Sulci.
PIA04642:
Gigas Meets Ulysses
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft captured this image in July 2003, showing mesas with interesting erosional patterns just south of Olympus Mons on Mars.
PIA04651:
Eroded Mesas
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor show some of the lava flows on the middle south flank of the giant volcano Olympus Mons, the largest volcano on Mars.
PIA04669:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the lava flows and leveed lava channels on the southeastern flank of Olympus Mons on Mars. These flows have been covered by a thick mantle of dust.
PIA04687:
Southeast Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the western summit region of Olympus Mons on Mars featuring a lava flow that was cut by the pit walls when the caldera collapse occurred.
PIA04689:
Top of Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wide angle view of the giant martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
PIA04737:
Oblique Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04784:
Flows of Olympus
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Bold scarps and extensional features (grabens) record multiple stages of caldera collapse at the summit of Olympus Mons. The wrinkle ridges are contractional feature. This image was captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in October 2003.
PIA04786:
The Summit of Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04812:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04843:
Tharsis Wind Streaks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04861:
Valley near Olympus
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Nov 24, 2003 shows the furrowed terrain of Gigas Sulci, likely produced in response to the evolution of Olympus Mons volcano. A narrow channel with lava snakes flows into a gaping chasm.
PIA04885:
Geomorphic Gumbo
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This map from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on Dec 8, 2003 shows the estimated lower limit of the water content of the upper meter of Martian soil. Highest water-mass fractions, exceeding 30 percent to well over 60 percent, are in the polar region.
PIA04907:
Water Mass Map from Neutron Spectrometer
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04919:
Wind-Eroded Terrain near Olympus Mons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05527:
Olympian Lava Channels
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark slope streaks on ridges in the Lycus Sulci region, north of the Olympus Mons volcano. Slope streaks form in the dry, dust-mantled regions of Mars.
PIA05696:
Lycus Sulci Slope Streaks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05710:
Lava Tubes of Olympus
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on April 5, 2004 shows volcanic flows from Olympus Mons and the formation of the structural feature can be deduced by which flows are cut by the fracture and which flows fill and cross the fracture.
PIA05689:
Flows from Olympus Mons
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This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey released on April 6, 2004 shows late stage volcanic flows coming down the side of Olympus Mons and flowing over the cliff-like margin of the volcano.
PIA05712:
Olympus Mons Lava Flows
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05738:
Olympian Flows
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pit formed by collapse on the lower southeast flank of Olympus Mons on Mars. The terrain surrounding the pit, and the pit walls and floor, appear to be mantled by fine dust.
PIA05793:
Dusty Collapse Pit
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a chain of collapse pits on the lower northeast flank of the large martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
PIA05795:
Pit Chain on Olympus
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark slope streaks coming off of rugged hills in the Lycus Sulci region, north of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars.
PIA05991:
Lycus Sulci Slope Streaks
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows of dunes in the martian north polar region is important because it shows one of the highest northern latitude views of streaks thought to be made by passing dust devils.
PIA06334:
Polar Dust Devil Streaks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows rugged hills and mountains mantled by a blanket of fine dust in Sulci Gordii on Mars. Ripple-like dunes in the troughs between each hill or mountain have also been covered with dust.
PIA06363:
Sulci Gordii
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows troughs and pits formed by collapse in the Gordii Fossae region, east of the volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars. Squiggly ridges with crests are evident.
PIA06707:
Gordii Fossae Troughs
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This image released on August 12, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Tartarus Montes. The small hills and ridges in this image are the montes (mountains) of the Tartarus region of Mars.
PIA06821:
The Naming of Things: Tartarus Montes
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This image released on August 31, 2004 from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey shows Lycus Sulci, a lowlying area of ridges and valleys found to the northwest of Olympus Mons on Mars. Sulci are subparallel furrow and ridges.
PIA06844:
Lycus Sulci
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows fine details in the walls and floor of a meteor impact crater located immediately west of the Lycus Sulci ridged terrain on Mars. The walls of the crater exhibit the finely-detailed layering of the local bedrock.
PIA06877:
Impact Crater
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows lava flows and a collapsed lava tube on the upper southwest flank of Olympus Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars ever known.
PIA06935:
The Flows of Olympus
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