Mars Global Surveyor Images: January 27 - February 2, 2005

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
January 27 - February 2, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

o Intracrater Dunes (Released 27 January 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/01/27/

o Big Dust Devils (Released 28 January 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/01/28/

o Pavonis Slope Streaks (Released 29 January 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/01/29/

o Becquerel's Bands (Released 30 January 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/01/30/

o Ascraeus Pits (Released 31 January 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/01/31/

o Mars at Ls 160 Degrees (Released 1 February 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/02/01/

o Wind-Exhumed Crater (Released 2 February 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/02/02/


All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived he

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 and has been
in Mars orbit since September 1997. It began its primary
mapping mission on March 8, 1999. Mars Global Surveyor is the
first mission in a long-term program of Mars exploration known as
the Mars Surveyor Program that is managed by JPL for NASA's Office
of Space Science, Washington, DC. Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)
and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC
using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates
the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global
Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin
Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.

wrote:

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
January 27 - February 2, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:
[...]

o Mars at Ls 160 Degrees (Released 1 February 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/02/01/


So the picture should in northern summer, but where is the north pole
(is the picture upside down?), and what are these cloudy areas ?






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"Carla Schneider" wrote in message
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wrote:

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
January 27 - February 2, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:
[...]

o Mars at Ls 160 Degrees (Released 1 February 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/02/01/


So the picture should in northern summer, but where is the north pole
(is the picture upside down?), and what are these cloudy areas ?



Ther Martian pole evaporates in the northern summer. The cloudy areas are
clouds.

In article a5rMd.33559$4I2.25655@attbi_s01,
George wrote:
So the picture should in northern summer, but where is the north pole
(is the picture upside down?), and what are these cloudy areas ?

Ther Martian pole evaporates in the northern summer.

No, there is a permanent water-ice polar cap in addition to the winter
CO2-ice cap.
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"Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer
-- George Herbert |

"Henry Spencer" wrote in message
...
In article a5rMd.33559$4I2.25655@attbi_s01,
George wrote:
So the picture should in northern summer, but where is the north pole
(is the picture upside down?), and what are these cloudy areas ?

Ther Martian pole evaporates in the northern summer.

No, there is a permanent water-ice polar cap in addition to the winter
CO2-ice cap.
--
"Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer
-- George Herbert |

Yes, that apparently is true. However, if you look at these images, below, you
will see that the difference is considerable. In other words, there may be
permanent ice at the pole (i.e., ice in the summer as well,), but I think you
will agree that it shrinks to almost nothing, comparitively:

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...es_020320.html

"Carla Schneider" wrote in message
...
wrote:

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
January 27 - February 2, 2005

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:
[...]

o Mars at Ls 160 Degrees (Released 1 February 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/02/01/


So the picture should in northern summer, but where is the north pole
(is the picture upside down?), and what are these cloudy areas ?

The picture is not upside down.
The cloudy areas are exactly that:
cloudy areas.
Nothing unusual about it.
We've been seeing cloudy areas
on Mars for decades.