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MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, clouds at both poles, with dates, with contours
This is a visualization of the clouds near the Marian polar caps measured using the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows both poles, with dates, and with countours.

Animation showing seasonal Mars cloud variations (with contours and dates) showing both poles    Animation showing seasonal Mars cloud variations (with contours and dates) showing both poles

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Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum north pole extent    Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum north pole extent

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Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum south pole extent    Maritan clouds with a countour at mamimum south pole extent

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Video ID: SVS2001-0030 *
Animator: Greg Shirah
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: November 30, 2001
Duration: 310 frames, 10.3 seconds
Scientist: David Smith (NASA/GSFC), Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Citation: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html
Instrument: MGS/MOLA, Viking
Keywords: Mars, Snow, Frost, Pole
DLESESubject: Space science, Cryology
Data Collected: 1997/09/15-2001/06/30
Animation Series: Mars Seasonal Snow Variations



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