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Flying through Valles Marineris

author: NASA/JPL/ASU/Novapix

reference: a-mar10-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 9 cm

This scene comes from "Flight Through Mariner Valley," a video made with Mars Odyssey images which takes viewers on a simulated flight into Valles Marineris. To give the mosaic depth and height, moviemakers fitted it to a computerized topographic model for Valles Marineris. This was developed using hundreds of thousands of altitude measurements by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, an instrument on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.

Keywords for this photo:

2001 MARS ODYSSEY - 2006 - ASTRONOMY - CANYON - FALSE COLOR - INFRARED - MARS - MARS ODYSSEY - PLANET - VALLES MARINERIS -