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Credit & Copyright: Mars Global Surveyor Project,
NASA
Explanation:
The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has
returned another close-up
of the Cydonia region on Mars.
Orbiting over clear Martian skies
at a range of about 200 miles,
the Mars Orbiter Camera
looked down on features known as
the "City" on Mars and produced
a high resolution image covering a swath around 1.5 by 15 miles
at a pixel size of about 8.2 feet.
This cropped portion of
the processed image shows an area approximately
1.5 miles wide.
Heavily weathered hills and pocked surfaces suggest the erosion
of layers of the ancient
Martian crust.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: Mars - cydonia region
Publications with words: Mars - cydonia region
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 3 Á Ice Clouds over a Red Planet
- APOD: 2024 November 10 Á Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
- APOD: 2024 September 9 Á Mars: Moon, Craters, and Volcanos
- APOD: 2024 June 5 Á Shadow of a Martian Robot
- Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited
- The Shadow of Ingenuity s Damaged Rotor Blade
- APOD: 2023 November 7 Á A Martian Dust Devil Spins By