| NASA Center: |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
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| Image # : |
PIA01337 |
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| Date : |
01/01/1999
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Title
3-D View of Mars
Full Description
This first three-dimensional picture of Mars' north pole enables
scientists to estimate the volume of its water ice cap with
unprecedented precision, and to study its surface variations and the
heights of clouds in the region for the first time.
Approximately 2.6 million of these laser pulse measurements were
assembled into a topographic grid of the North pole with a spatial
resolution of 0.6 miles (one kilometer) and a vertical accuracy of 15-90 feet
(5-30 meters). The principal investigator for MOLA is Dr. David E. Smith of
Goddard.
The MOLA instrument was designed and built by the Laser Remote Sensing
Branch of the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at Goddard. The Mars
Global Surveyor Mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA, for the NASA Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
Keywords
Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter MOLA Global Surveyor Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC
Subject Category
Mars Global Surveyor, Planet-Mars,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
GSFC
- Center Number:
PIA01337
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000456
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
.jpg |
77 |
58 |
10 |
Small |
.jpg |
546 |
410 |
115 |
Medium |
.jpg |
1280 |
960 |
443 |
Large |
.jpg |
1 |
1920 |
1,221 |
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