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Polar imagery, What's your favourite view of the poles? |
 Jan 2 2008, 08:36 PM
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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60  |
Sorry Admins if this isn't exactly the right place to put this topic, but I struggled to find a better place... feel free to move it if appropriate.
As Phoenix's landing approaches I've been doing a lot of picture research to prepare my talks, and have really had my eyes opened to how beautiful and dramatic Mars' polar caps and polar regions are. I guess I've neglected them before, concentrated too much on the more glamourous and better-known landing sites of Viking, Sojourner and the MERs, but wow, there's some amazing sights up there in't far north... So I just thought I'd invite the imagesmiths out there to put up their best/fave views of the poles for everyone to enjoy, as part of the build-up to the Big Day. Here are the images I've made for my talk - not directly related to the Phoenix landing site, I know, just "wow!" images... This is a crop of an MGS pic, showing part of the Chasma Boreale...
... and this is a crop of a hiRISE image showing a neighbouring area...
Ok, come on, share what you've got... or if you've got nothing, make something... 
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Jan 7 2008, 04:58 AM
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Bright Streaks and Dark Fans (PSP_003113_0940)
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Jan 7 2008, 11:06 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 402 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
Beautifull!
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Jan 13 2008, 09:04 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 73 Joined: 25-June 07 From: United States Member No.: 2537 |
Basal Unit and Dunes (PSP_001712_2635)
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Jan 13 2008, 03:37 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1688 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Here's the big picture of the permanent north polar ice from Viking (PIA00161).
It might be interesting to zoom into some of the other images presented here using the above image as a context (e.g. the ones in the next post). I like the flyover in the first link from bellapheron1's post #13, though it would be nice to have some further intermediate resolution imagery added. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Jan 13 2008, 04:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1688 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Mars Express North Polar Perspective View. Unsure of vertical exaggeration factor:
This image is a closeup of the upper right in the above one...
More at this URL: http://berlinadmin.dlr.de/Missions/express....2005_eng.shtml -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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Jan 13 2008, 05:02 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Frustratingly, the available DEM's for those observations do not extend as far as those features - they've elected to cut them short of there.
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Jan 13 2008, 06:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1688 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Yes, would be nice to have DEMs available to make zooms. Meanwhile, here's a nice zoom from a previous UMSF topic:
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=2711 And here is a THEMIS feature page on Polar Caps / Ice http://themis.la.asu.edu/theme-polar_ice -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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