Flight over the North Polar Ice Cap of Mars
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| Description | This animation of the north polar ice cap of Mars is based on image data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which is operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR). The north polar ice cap of Mars appears like a gigantic spiral out of ice and snow. Dark troughs in which wind-transported dust and deposits accumulated, alternate with white, ice-covered mounds. A particularly striking dark trough is Chasma Boreale, to be seen in the midterm of the movie. It is an up to 100 kilometer wide and 500 kilometer long canyon that cuts two kilometers deep into the north polar ice cap. HRSC is placed on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The systematic processing of the HRSC image data was carried out at DLR, and the movie was created by the Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing group at Freie Universität Berlin. For more information visit: http://www.fu-berlin.de/planets |
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| Date | 2017-05-11 |
| Source | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Author | ESA/DLR/FU Berlin |
