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Mars - Hellas Basin

author: USGS/Novapix

reference: a-mar04-00050

Image Size 300 DPI: 51 * 55 cm

This mosaic comprises about 50 Viking Orbiter images. The images were acquired in 1980 during late northern summer on Mars. The mosaic covers the region from latitude -70 degrees to 50 degrees and longitude 260 degrees to 360 degrees. The bright white region near the bottom of the image is due to carbon dioxide frost in the Hellas impact basin, which is about 2000 km in diameter. The bright yellow region at top is the Arabia region of Mars.

Keywords for this photo:

ARABIA - ASTRONOMY - FROST - HELLAS - IMPACT CRATER - MARS - PLANET - POSTER - VIKING - VIKING 1 -