Mars in the New Year
Explanation:
Many will long remember
where they
were
and what they were doing
when the calendar rolled over to the year 2000.
On Mars,
of course,
that date
was nothing special and the
Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft continued with business as
usual - systematically recording images of
the Red Planet
from orbit.
In fact, this striking
high-resolution picture was taken less than
7 hours after the new year began for
planet Earth's
"Universal Time" zone.
The area
seen is about 3 kilometers across at a maximum resolution of
4.5 meters per pixel.
It shows a wonderful variety of surface features and textures in the
Martian northern hemisphere region
Nilosyrtis Mensae.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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rights apply.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
