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Close Up Fly Over of Mars Polar Lander Landing Area in True Color
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This is one of a series of visualizations showing false-colored renderings of
the Martian topography measured by MOLA in the vicinity of the Mars Polar Lander landing site. Blue tones
represent elevations of less than 2 kilometers, while reddish tones are greater than about
2.8 kilometers, relative to the mean equatorial height of Mars. The elevation of the
landing site is about 2.4 km, midway into the polar layered terrain.
The 400 meters (1/4 mile) resolution of the MOLA data gives a smoothed
but vertically exaggerated view of the topography. At this scale it is
impossible to ascertain the actual roughness at the lander's
destination, forcing project directors to make their best guesses based
on available data.
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Close up fly over of the Mars Polar Lander landing area, using true color imagery from Viking. The topography in these images is from MOLA and is vertically exaggerated by a factor of 5.
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Overhead view of the Mars Polar Lander landing site
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Oblique view of Mars Polar Lander landing site
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Video ID: SVS1999-0028 *
Animator: Tom Biddlecome
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: November 22, 1999
Duration: 754 frames,
25.133333 seconds
Scientist: David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
Instrument: MGS/MOLA, Viking
Datasets: Topography
Keywords: Mars
DLESESubject: Space science
Data Collected: MOLA: 1997/09/15-1998/11, Viking: 1976-1980
PAOID: g99-097_space
Story: stories/MOLA_south_pole/index.html
Animation Series: Mars Polar Lander
Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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