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Collection:
NASA Mars Collecton
title:
Mars Daily Global Image from April 1999
Description:
Twelve orbits a day provide the Mars Global Surveyor MOC wide angle cameras a global "snapshot" of weather patterns across the planet. Here, bluish-white water ice clouds hang above the Tharsis volcanoes. This computer generated image was created by wrapping the global map found at PIA02066 onto a sphere. The center of this newly projected sphere is located at 15 degrees North, 90 degrees West. This perspective rotates the south pole (which has no data coverage in the original map) away from our field of view.

Malin Space Science Systems 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.

Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
section:
Global Views of Mars
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Mars
facet_what:
Surveyor
facet_what:
Mars Observer
facet_what:
Snapshot
facet_what:
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS)
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
California
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Denver
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
April 1999
facet_when_year:
1999
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SPD-MARS-gallery/glo bal/PIA02653.html
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Mars Daily Global Image from April 1999