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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows kidney bean-shaped pits, and other pits, formed by erosion in a landscape of frozen carbon dioxide in the martian south polar residual cap.
PIA04150:
Polar Cap Pits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04149:
Mars at Ls 269°: Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows rugged terrain in the Nestus Valles portion of northern Memnonia on Mars. Wind erosion has scoured the landscape. Dust mantles the scene.
PIA04148:
Rugged Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a circular depression and a suite of eroding mesas of carbon dioxide. These features occur in the south polar residual cap of Mars.
PIA04147:
South Polar Depression
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies cut into layered rock and debris on the wall of a south middle-latitude crater on Mars.
PIA04146:
Martian Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a slope upon which are exposed some of the layered materials that underlie the south polar cap of Mars.
PIA04145:
Polar Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows severely tilted, or dipping, layered rocks in Oudemans Crater in the Valles Marineris region of Mars. The rocks have a light tone and are somewhat broken-up by faults. These rocks were deposited in flat-lying layers.
PIA04140:
Severely-Dipping Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows eroded remnants of carbon dioxide ice in the south polar residual cap of Mars.
PIA04139:
Polar Landforms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04138:
Mars at Ls 269°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows bright (and a few dark) wind streaks formed in the defrosting carbon dioxide of Mars' south polar seasonal frost cap.
PIA04137:
Defrosting Patterns
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark sand dunes on the floor of a southern mid-latitude impact crater on Mars. Craters are commonly the site of sand dunes, as sand may become trapped in these topographic depressions.
PIA04136:
Mid-latitude Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a suite of small, dark sand dunes on the floor of a crater in western Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA04135:
Windblown Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust-mantled, wind-eroded landscape in the Medusae Sulci region of Mars.
PIA04134:
Wind-Eroded Landscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark-toned sand dunes on the floor of the large martian impact crater, Herschel, located in the Terra Cimmeria region of Mars.
PIA04133:
Dunes of Herschel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows yardangs, a ridge-and-groove landform produced by wind erosion of a granular, sand-rich bedrock. These are located west-southwest of the volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars.
PIA04132:
Wind-Eroded Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04131:
Mars at Ls 269°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' south polar residual cap landscape, formed in frozen carbon dioxide.
PIA04130:
Frozen Carbon Dioxide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a rare patch of dark sand dunes in the Nilosyrtis Mensae region of Mars.
PIA04129:
Nilosyrtis Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wind-eroded landscape in the Amazonis Mensa region of far western Tharsis on Mars. Two meteor impact craters are seen in a state of partial-exhumation from within the wind-eroded material.
PIA04128:
Exhuming Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a large crater on Mars retaining its original bowl shaped interior and the radial surface pattern on the ejecta. Just to the south is a crater that has been infilled by ejecta from the larger crater.
PIA04127:
Craters Filling Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows knobs of remnant, wind-eroded, layered sedimentary rock that once completely covered the floor of a crater located west of the Sinus Meridiani region of Mars.
PIA04125:
Sedimentary Rock Remnants
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows ejecta surrounding a crater on Mars has undergone significant erosion by the wind. The wind has stripped the surface features from the ejecta and has started to winnow away the ejecta blanket.
PIA04126:
Radial Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a view of linear troughs and mesas formed in the frozen carbon dioxide of the martian south polar residual cap.
PIA04124:
South Polar Variety
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-28 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
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This panoramic image, dubbed 'Rub al Khali,' was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the plains of Meridiani during the period from the May 6 to May 14, 2005. Opportunity was at a place known informally as 'Purgatory Dune.'
PIA07216:
Opportunity's 'Rub al Khali' Panorama
Full Resolution:     TIFF (410 MB)     JPEG (7.105 MB)     QTVR (7.756 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater retaining some of the radial 'spoke' features on top of the main ejecta; some erosion has occurred and will continue to modify the surface until no surface features formed during emplacement are left.
PIA04123:
Eroded Ejecta
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.255 MB)     JPEG (131.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows aligned pits formed by collapse along a fault trend in the Tractus Catena region of Mars, in northern Tharsis.
PIA04122:
Collapse Pits
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows radial 'spokes' on the top of the ejecta surrounding the crater on Mars. These surface features are formed during the ballistic emplacement of the ejecta and other materials being thrown out of the crater.
PIA04121:
Crater Ejecta
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-July 2005.
PIA04117:
Mars at Ls 249°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a gullied crater wall in the Terra Sirenum region of Mars. Fluids formed the gully channels and deposited debris in aprons at the base of the crater wall.
PIA04116:
Martian Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the interior of this crater on Mars has undergone at least two episodes of modification. At some time the crater interior was filled by material to approximately the high of the crater rim.
PIA04120:
Refilled Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows three aligned meteor impact craters on the floor of a much larger crater in the Noachis Terra region on Mars.
PIA04115:
Triple Impact
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows ome of the widely-varied terrain of the martian south polar residual cap. The landforms here are composed mainly of frozen carbon dioxide.
PIA04114:
Carbon Dioxide Landscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the interior of a trough, formed by faulting, on the lower southwest flank of Biblis Patera, a volcano in the Tharsis region of Mars. Boulders attest to the hardness of volcano rock, largely mantled with dust.
PIA04113:
Bouldery Trough
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater on Mars infilled by a material that likely contains volatiles. The linear to swirled surface marking indicate the fill flowed as it was filling the crater interior.
PIA04119:
Infilled Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a polygon-cracked plain in the south polar region of Mars. Dark spots and streaks indicate areas where the frost had begun to change and sublime away.
PIA04112:
Polygon-Cracked Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater interior on Mars filled by a thick accumulation of material. The fill is now undergoing removal, exposing the floor beneath the material.
PIA04118:
Infilled Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater interior on Mars containing smaller craters, sand dunes, and erosional features caused the wind. Additionally, the crater rim appears subdued, likely due to dust cover.
PIA04111:
Crater Interior with Internal Craters
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.246 MB)     JPEG (125.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an impact crater in western Daedalia Planum on Mars, with a wind streak around it.
PIA04110:
Crater in Daedalia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-July 2005.
PIA04109:
Mars at Ls 249°: Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows two types of crater interiors found on Mars, original and modified. The crater on the right has its original bowl shape. The crater of the left has had its interior modified by an infilling of lava.
PIA04108:
Crater Comparison
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows channels carved by catastrophic floods in the Tharsis region of Mars. This area is located northwest of the volcano, Jovis Tholus, and east of the large martian volcano, Olympus Mons.
PIA04103:
Cerberus Troughs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows channels carved by catastrophic floods in the Tharsis region of Mars. The terrain is presently mantled with fine dust.
PIA04102:
Tharsis Flood Features
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small barchan dunes on the floor of a crater in western Arabia Terra on Mars. Similar dunes are found in most of the larger craters of this region.
PIA04101:
West Arabia Barchans
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-15 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Looks kind of like something George Jetson would drive.
PIA04107:
THEMIS Images as Art #60
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a curved, pitted ridge in Isidis Planitia on Mars. This feature may be a remnant of a once more-extensive layer of material that covered the present, cratered surface.
PIA03999:
Curved and Pitted Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Perhaps a louse, or maybe some sort of unicellular organism?
PIA04106:
THEMIS Images as Art #59
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pair of small meteor impact craters in the Arena Colles region of Mars, located north of Isidis Planitia.
PIA03998:
Pair of Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. X marks the spot!
PIA04105:
THEMIS Images as Art #58
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of circular pits, arcuate scarps, troughs, buttes, and mesas on Mars' south polar cap.
PIA03997:
The Changing South Polar Cap of Mars: 1999-2005 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. A spooky skull stares out of the Martian plain.
PIA04104:
THEMIS Images as Art #57
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-July 2005.
PIA03996:
Mars at Ls 249°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Mars blows a kiss.
PIA03995:
THEMIS Images as Art #56
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a suite of troughs in the Tharsis region that were also the site of some catastrophic floods. These features are located northwest of the volcano, Jovis Tholus.
PIA03994:
Troughs in Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows complexly-eroded, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops in southern Melas Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris trough system on Mars.
PIA03993:
Melas Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the upper west flank of the giant martian volcano, Olympus Mons. Although considered to be young relative to much of Mars, at high resolution the Olympus Mons volcano turns out to be heavily cratered.
PIA03992:
Rugged Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Perhaps some flowers?
PIA03991:
THEMIS Images as Art #55
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand in the form of dunes and a broad, relatively flat, sand sheet in Ganges Chasma, part of the eastern Valles Marineris trough complex on Mars.
PIA03990:
Ganges Chasma Sands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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Mars Gusts Blow Toward Spirit
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Mars Gusts Blow Toward Spirit Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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Whirlwind Drama During Spirit's 496th Sol
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Whirlwind Drama During Spirit's 496th Sol Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-08 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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Gust and Dust at Gusev, Sol 495
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Gust and Dust at Gusev, Sol 495 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. It's cold on Mars, perhaps a snowman?
PIA03989:
THEMIS Images as Art #54
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a chain of collapse pits fomed among dust-mantled lava flows in the eastern Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA03987:
East Tharsis Pit Chain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Perhaps Martian unicorns?
PIA03988:
THEMIS Images as Art #53
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.064 MB)     JPEG (375.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand dunes in the caldera of Nili Patera, a volcanic crater in Syrtis Major on Mars.
PIA03986:
Nili Patera Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-July 2005.
PIA03985:
Mars at Ls 249°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
THEMIS
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Perhaps a Martian rhinoceros?
PIA03984:
THEMIS Images As Art #52
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft takes a look at THEMIS image as art. Many science-fiction writers have postulated many life forms on Mars. Perhaps some guessed they might see bears there?
PIA03983:
THEMIS Images As Art #51
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a polgyon-cracked surface, into which deep, somewhat kidney-bean-shaped pits have formed. These are landscapes of the martian south polar residual cap.
PIA03980:
South Polar Polygons
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small, dust-covered, volcano in the Jovis Fossae region of Mars, known for its extremely large volcanoes, such as Olympus Mons. Many small volcanoes also occur on the red planet, particularly in the Tharsis region.
PIA03979:
Small Dusty Volcano
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows knobs and buttes of an eroded landscape north of the crater, Antoniadi, in far eastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA03978:
Knobby Eastern Arabia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft illustrates how radically the wind can affect the surface of Mars. The lava flows in this region have been covered by fine materials, and eroded by the sand blasting action of the wind.
PIA03982:
Eroding Lava Flows
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small, relatively light-toned knob of layered material, and the erosional expression of the underlying layers, in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA03977:
South Polar Knob
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows flows west of Arsia Mons also contains a large windstreak. Note the surface texture in the 'white' part of the windstreak is more subdued than the rest of the flow.
PIA03981:
Windstreak on Lava Flow
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand dunes in a crater in the Hesperia region of Mars.
PIA03976:
Dark Martian Dunes
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark spots and streaks formed in seasonal frost covering terrain in the martian south polar region.
PIA03974:
Defrosting Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-29 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraftwestern flows change in appearance. The flows are typically broad, and the surface texture is more subdued than the southern flows. At the bottom of the image a windstreak 'tail' has formed behind a crater.
PIA03975:
Broad Western Flows from Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft lava flows to the west of Arsia Mons look very similar to the lava flows south of Arsia Mons. It is very likely that the flows were occurring at the same time(s) in both areas.
PIA03973:
Arsia Mons Lava Flows
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-June 2005.
PIA03972:
Mars at Ls 230°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft the flows to the west of Arsia Mons (at the bottom) have started to cover the ejecta surrounding the large crater.
PIA03971:
Arsia Mons Western Flows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows classic yardangs, landforms created by wind erosion in southern Amazonis Planitia on Mars. The boat-shaped mesa, in particular, is a classic example of a yardang landform.
PIA03969:
South Amazonis Yardangs
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark rippled surfaces and a patch of light-toned, perhaps sedimentary rock exposed on the floor of western Tithonium Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris trough system on Mars.
PIA03968:
West Tithonium Scene
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust-covered landscape in northern Tharsis, including several troughs formed by faults as the crust in the region expanded, long ago.
PIA03967:
Troughs in Tharsis
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some of the circular pits and spectacular buttes and mesas formed in the frozen carbon dioxide of the martian south polar residual cap.
PIA03966:
Tikhonravov Layers
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows that Arsia Mons flows that have surrounded a large crater. At some point the flows broke through the crater rim and then filled the interior of the crater with lava.
PIA03970:
Filled Crater
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered sedimentary rocks exposed by erosion, then mantled by dust, in Tikhonravov Crater in central Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA03962:
Tikhonravov Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows overlapping flows with different suface textures. In the middle of the image there is a round, darker feature, a small volcano. To the left of the volcano a graben cuts across the lava flows.
PIA03965:
Arsia Mons Overlapping Flows
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of lava flows south of Arsia Mons shows a broad, rough surfaced flow (brighter in image). The brighter flow splits at the bottom and then rejoins again, leaving a window of older flow visible.
PIA03964:
Arsia Mons Surface Flow
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small impact crater with a 'butterfly' ejecta pattern. The butterfly pattern results from an oblique impact.
PIA03961:
Small Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-06-21 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
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The wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity dug deep into the soft, sandy material of a wind-shaped ripple in Mars' Meridiani Planum region on April 26, 2005. Getting the rover out of the dunes took more than five weeks.
PIA07999:
Looking Back at 'Purgatory Dune'
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The lava flows from Arsia Mons are some of the youngest flows in the region, as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The flows are long, fairly narrow, overlapping, and with various surface features and textures.
PIA03963:
Arsia Mons Lava Flows
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-June 2005.
PIA03960:
Mars at Ls 230°: Syrtis Major
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater in the Memnonia region of Mars, around which has formed a wind streak.
PIA03957:
Crater with Streak
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is located on the SE flank of Arsia Mons where it meets the plains. Collapse features are present at the margin of the volcano.
PIA03958:
Collapse Features on Arsia Mons
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Arsia Mons, located on the southern flank of the volcano adjacent to the NE trending feature. There has been a significant amount of collapse features formed in this region.
PIA03959:
Arsia Mons Southern Flank
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark spots formed in carbon dioxide frost that covers the surfaces of patches of sand in Mars' south polar region.
PIA03956:
Defrosting Sand
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies formed in material on the walls of an impact crater in the martian southern hemisphere. A liquid, laden with debris, poured down these slopes to form the gullies.
PIA03955:
South Hemisphere Gullies
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand and an eroded slope of massively-bedded, light-toned, sedimentary rock. These landforms are located in east/central Candor Chasma on Mars.
PIA03954:
Candor Chasma Features
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the southeast-facing wall of an impact crater in northwestern Acidalia Planitia on Mars. Gullies are common in southern middle-latitude craters.
PIA03953:
Gullied Crater Wall
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the part of the NE flank of Arsia Mons where it meets the plains. The flank of the volcano is comprised of long flows. Collapse features are present at the flank margin.
PIA03952:
Arsia Mons Flank
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the enigmatic valley of the Olympica Fossae region of Mars. Unknown is whether water, lava, or mud, or some combination of these things, once poured through the valley system.
PIA03951:
Olympica Fossae Landforms
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