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English: Photograph of the planet Mars taken at 8:52 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on July 26 by the high resolution, narrow-angle telescope of the Mars Observer Camera. At that time, the Mars Observer spacecraft was 5.8 million kilometers (3.6 million miles) and 28 days from its encounter with Mars. The resolution in this image is approximately 21.5 km (13.4 mi) per picture element and Mars, roughly 6,800 km (4,200 miles) in diameter, is about 315 picture elements across. North is to the top of the image; the south pole is near the bottom but in shadow. The sunrise line (terminator) stretches across the morning hemisphere from lower right to upper left. At this distance from Mars, only bright and dark markings resulting from variations in the amount and thickness of dust and sand are visible. Toward the bottom of the picture is a bright, roughly circular area called Hellas, an impact basin 2,000 km (1,250 mi) across. The dark area in the center of the frame is Syrtis Major, a region of volcanic plains and dark sand dunes. At the top of the photograph is Nilosyrtis, an area of buttes, mesas and box canyons reminiscent of the deserts of the southwest United States. Launched on Sept. 25, 1992, Mars Observer will enter Mars orbit on Tuesday, Aug. 24, at about 1:30 p.m. PDT. In-orbit engineering checkout of the camera is scheduled to begin Sept. 16. The camera and six other investigations begin mapping operations from a circular orbit just 400 km (248 mi) above the surface on Nov. 22. The Mars Observer Camera was developed by and is operated under contract to Jet Propulsion Laboratory by an industry/university team led by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, Calif. |
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current | 02:25, 30 December 2010 | 436 × 377 (67 KB) | LobStoR (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version as of 23:31, 29 December 2010 -- nevermind, the jpeg chroma information affected it more than i expected | |
02:24, 30 December 2010 | 436 × 377 (32 KB) | LobStoR (talk | contribs) | reduced palette from 24-bit RGB to 8-bit greyscale | ||
23:31, 29 December 2010 | 436 × 377 (67 KB) | Toshio Yamaguchi (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description={{en|1=Image of Mars, taken by Mars Observer 28 days before planned orbit insertion.}} |Source=http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/has/Modules/Earth-to-Mars/8/images/clip_image002_000.jpg |Author=NASA |Date=1993 |Permission= | |
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