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Mars: Valles Marineris
author: NASA/JPL/ASU/Novapix
reference: a-mar10-00001
Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 14 cm
This mosaic image of Valles Marineris - colored to resemble the martian surface - comes from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a visible-light and infrared-sensing camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
Built from more than 500 daytime infrared photos, the mosaic shows the whole valley. Despite the valley's huge extent - including its western extension through Noctis Labyrinthus, it reaches some 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) long - the smallest details visible in the image are about the size of a football field: 100 meters (328 feet).
Built from more than 500 daytime infrared photos, the mosaic shows the whole valley. Despite the valley's huge extent - including its western extension through Noctis Labyrinthus, it reaches some 3,000 kilometers (2,000 miles) long - the smallest details visible in the image are about the size of a football field: 100 meters (328 feet).
Keywords for this photo:
2001 MARS ODYSSEY - ASTRONOMY - CANYON - FALSE COLOR - INFRARED - MARS - MARS ODYSSEY - PLANET - VALLES MARINERIS -
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