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Mars with ocean - looking at Elysium Mons

author: Nasa/GSFC/Novapix

reference: a-mar99-00028

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 16 cm

This visualization shows how Mars might look with an ocean at -500m where the lowest point on Mars is about -8000m and the highest point is about 22000m. Data from The FUSE spacecraft and from the Mars Global Surveyor/MOLA instrument where used to support this theory

Keywords for this photo:

ALTIMETRY - ASTRONOMY - ELYSIUM - ELYSIUM MONS - ELYSIUM REGIO - EVOLUTION - GLOBAL VIEW - ILLUSTRATION - MARS - OCEAN - PLANET - THARSIS - VOLCANO - WATER -