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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Earth-Mars Volcano Comparisons: True Color Olympus Mons over Elevation Color-Mapped Earth Bathymetry with True Color Land Features
Despite the 2:1 relative size difference between Earth and Mars, the Martian volcano, Olympus Mons, dwarfs Earth's Mauna Loa, Hawaii volcano. When measured from the ocean floor, Mauna Loa is approximately 10km. high compared to Olympus Mons at 23km. In this animation, Olympus Mons obstructs the view of Mauna Loa, but gives the viewer a good perspective of the overall size of this giant volcano. This animation is match-framed to animations #2864 through #2872.
Animation starts with a distant view of Earth and zooms down to Olympus Mons laying over the Hawaiian Islands.
Metadata
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Sensor
MGS/MOLA, Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2870 -
Start Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
End Timecode
00:00:00:00 -
Animator
Alex Kekesi, Greg Shirah, Marte Newcombe -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2003/12/18 -
Scientist
James Garvin (NASA/HQ), Gregory Neumann (Johns Hopkins University), Herbert Frey (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
MGS/MOLA topography, Viking true color, Terra/MODIS topography, Terra/MODIS clouds -
Data Date
MGS/MOLA:1997/09/15-2001/01/31, Viking:1976/06/19-1980/08/17, Terra/MODIS:2001/06-2001/09 -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
Virginia Butcher (SSAI)