images

Mars

by

USGS/Novapix

Reference

a-mar04-00001

Date

2006-10-08

About 1000 Viking Orbiter images have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars at a scale of 1 km/pixel. The north polar cap is visible in this projection at the top of the image, the great equatorial canyon system (Valles Marineris) below center, and four huge Tharsis volcanoes (and several smaller ones) at left. Also note heavy impact cratering of the highlands (bottom and right portions of this mosaic) and the younger, less heavily cratered terrains elsewhere