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Clouds on Mars
author: Nasa/JPL/MSSS/Novapix
reference: a-mar06-00030
Image Size 300 DPI: 15 * 9 cm
Clouds over each of the large Tharsis volcanoes (left) are white and bluish-white features in this image. Olympus Mons volcano is in the upper left corner. The three Tharsis Montes run diagonally from upper center toward lower left--in order,they are Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons. The Valles Marineris--a giant system of chasms and troughs--stretches across the center right side of the picture. The Valles Marineris would stretch all the way across the United States, from Los Angeles on the west side to New York in the east. The mosaic shows images from a single day during the martian northern summer in April 1999.
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