Mars' Northern Hemisphere

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Mars Odyssey: Mars' Northern Hemisphere

NASA's Mars Odyssey detected water ice in the northern hemisphere. During the winter months, the icy soil is covered by a thick layer of carbon dioxide ('dry ice') frost obscuring the water ice signature.This animation is match-framed to #2779 and #2780. Its purpose is to establish a frame of reference using a true color dataset. In this case, that data is from Viking.

Animation using Viking true color data. Tilts down to show the martian northern hemisphere.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    MGS/MOLA

  • Animation ID

    2778

  • Video ID

    SVS2003-0017

  • Start Timecode

    01:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:01:08:00

  • Animator

    Alex Kekesi, Greg Shirah

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/06/25

  • Scientist

    Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Smith (NASA/GSFC), Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University)

  • Datasets

    MGS/MOLA topography, Viking true color

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    MGS/MOLA:1997/09/15-2001/01/31, Viking:1976/06/19-1980/08/17

  • Pao ID

    G03-043

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/0626marswater.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular