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[MizarKey]

Thanks to Ustrax in this post , I've had a chance to see some of the Russian images I've never seen.

It looks like they had some problems with stitching or something. Note these two:

February 25 program 4 image 8Z


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February 26 program 5 image 12Z


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Same approx. area, one has a folded landscape on the left, the other has an old crater...right hand side appears to be the same though. I don't know if there's a way to find out where this area is to compare it to MOC images...

[babakm]

I find Google Mars pretty useful for these kind of questions. Using this page from Don Mitchell's site, a bit of location guidance from NASA and Google Mars, it was relatively easy to find the context for that specific imaging run (Program 5). See the first attachment linked below for context. I've ROUGHLY dropped in the 11 Mars 5 images (5.Z is missing) into a visible light map (attachment 2) for reference.

Zooming into the specific area of image 12.Z (attachment 3), there is no sign of the mystery ridge, but there are plenty of other possible culprits: Clouds.

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[4th rock from th...]

Nice match! It does show the data in context. The Mars 5 photos are not that bad after all

Here's my version of the photos and mosaic, based on the location finding work above. It's a higher resolution version, because I processed the Mars 5 images to remove most of the noise and brightness variations and the deserved a bigger size.