Water Ice, Summer Observations

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Mars Odyssey: Mars' Northern Hemisphere

Mars Odyssey: Water Ice/Summer Observations

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.

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 #2778 and #2779. It shows the areas of ice during a martian summer.

Animation tilts down to show the northern hemisphere of Mars during the summer.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    MGS/MOLA

  • Animation ID

    2780

  • Video ID

    SVS2003-0017

  • Start Timecode

    01:02:09:00

  • End Timecode

    01:02:42:00

  • 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

    Mars Odyssey/GRS High energy neutron, MGS/MOLA topography

  • DLESE Subject

    Space science

  • Data Date

    MGS/MOLA:1997/09/15-2001/01/31, Mars Odyssey/GRS:2002/11/03-2003/04/10

  • Pao ID

    G03-043

  • Story URL

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

  • Animation Type

    Regular