Good Morning Mars
Explanation:
Looking down on
the Northern Hemisphere of Mars on June 1,
the Mars Global Surveyor
spacecraft's wide angle camera recorded
this morning image of the red planet.
Mars Global Surveyor's orbit is now oriented to view the planet's surface
during the morning hours and the night/day shadow boundary or terminator
arcs across the left side of the picture.
Two
large volcanos,
Olympus Mons (left of center) and
Ascraeus Mons (lower right) peer upward
through seasonal haze and
water-ice clouds of
the Northern Martian Winter.
The color image was synthesized from red and blue band pictures and only
approximates a "true color" picture of Mars.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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