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Planum Boreum crater
March 03, 2003
Planum Boreum crater
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This false color image shows a region with craters of different ages located at the margin of Acidalia Planitia. This image was collected during the Northern Spring season.
Cratered Acidalia Planitia
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Nanedi Valles, located in Xanthe Terra.
Nanedi Valles
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater from a double impact - two meteors hitting simultaneously. The two meteors would have started as a single object and, at some point prior to impac...
Doublet Crater
This unnamed channel is located in Xanthe Terra.
Channel in Xanthe Terra
This graphic shows the ongoing contributions of NASA’s rovers and orbiters during a Martian dust storm that began on May 30, 2018.
Mars Storm Watch Observations
A small section of Dao Vallis in shown in this VIS image. Dao Vallis is a major channel that drains into Hellas Planitia
Dao Valles
Bright blue marks a deposit of chloride (salt) minerals in the southern highlands of Mars in this false-color image, which highlights mineral composition differences.
Chloride Salt Deposit in Southern Highlands of Mars (Annotated)
This artist's concept shows NASA's Mars orbiters lining up behind the Red Planet for their "duck and cover" maneuver to shield them fro comet dust that may result from the close flyby of comet Sidi...
Siding Spring Mars Spacecraft
This image is near the southern edge of a low, broad volcanic feature called Syrtis Major.
Syrtis Major
This image superimposes Gamma-Ray Spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter onto topographic data from the laser altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
Potassium Concentrations on Mars
This color-coded map indicates the depth to icy layers at a site in southern Mars. The dense, icy layer retains heat better than the looser soil above it, so where the icy layer is closer to the su...
Depth-to-Ice Map of a Southern Mars Site Near Melea Planum
This view combines information from two instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map color-coded composition over the shape of the ground in a small portion of the Nili Fossae plains re...
Rocks Here Sequester Some of Mars' Early Atmosphere
Sixteen seventh-graders at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the Martian pit feature at the center of the superimposed red square in this image while participating in a program t...
Martian Pit Feature Found by Seventh Graders
Fans and ribbons of dark sand dunes creep across the floor of Bunge Crater in response to winds blowing from the direction at the top of the picture. The frame is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) wide.
Bunge Crater Dunes
The floor of this unnamed crater in Aonia Terra has been filled with multiple layers of material.
Layered Fill
Researchers estimating the amount of carbon held in the ground at the largest known carbonate-containing deposit on Mars utilized data from three different NASA Mars orbiters.
Multiple Instruments Used for Mars Carbon Estimate
Buzz Aldrin, an Apollo 11 astronaut who walked on the moon, makes a holographic appearance in 'Destination: Mars,' a mixed-reality tour of a part of Mars that NASA's Curiosity rover has explored.
Buzz Aldrin
The channels in this VIS image are part of Tyrrhena Fossae on the northern flank of Tyrrhenus Mons.
Tyrrhena Fossae
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High View of Melas
This image is located near the boundary between Syrtis Major and Isidis Planitia. The top of the image shows rough material that has eroded away from the lower portion of the image, revealing an un...
Erosion and what it Reveals
Martian surface frost, made up largely of carbon dioxide, appears blueish-white in these images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera aboard NASA’s 2001 Odyssey orbiter. THEMIS t...
Four Images of Morning Frost on Mars
The floor of this crater in Terra Sirenum contains layered material. The layered sedimentary material on Mars is arguably the most interesting and compelling material on the planet. These layers mo...
Terra Sirenum Crater
A small basin (center foreground) lies below the southern rim of Melas Chasma, part of Valles Marineris.
Melas Chasma's Ancient Lake
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows ice-rich clouds over the summit of Arsia Mons.
Ice-Rich Clouds - False Color
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