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NSSDCA Photo Gallery |
Note: If you are looking for images from Mars Pathfinder, they are posted on the Mars Pathfinder mirror sites and also at NSSDCA at: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/marspath_images.html.
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Global mosaic of Mars. Visible in the center of this mosaic is the largest known chasm in the solar system, Valles Marineris. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | Caption | MF07S078 | 256K | |
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Global mosaic of Mars. Cerberus region. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | Caption | MF12N290 | 194K | |
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Global mosaic of Mars. Syrtis Major region. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | Caption | MF01S306 | 288K | |
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Global images taken by the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The top image is the Valles Marineris region (centered on roughly 60 degrees longitude), the middle image is the Tharsis region (centered on roughly 160 degrees longitude), and the bottom image is the Syrtis Major region (centered on roughly 270 degrees longitude). These three images are individual frames from one press release photograph. | Caption | STScI-PRC95-17A, 95-HC-113 | 36K | |
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A dust storm kicks up on Mars. | Caption | STScI-PRC96-34, 96-HC-716 | 33K | Hi-res |
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Late spring on Mars (centered on roughly 305 degrees longitude). | Caption | STScI-PRC97-09a | 66K | Hi-res |
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Late spring on Mars (centered on roughly 160, 210, and 305 degrees longitude). | Caption | STScI-PRC97-09b | 59K | Hi-res |
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Mars during 1999 opposition with Earth. | Caption | STScI-PRC99-27 | 76K | Hi-res |
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Digital Image Model (DIM) of Mars. Reproduced from Volume 7 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | SC00N000 | 162K | Hi-res | |
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Topographic Map of Mars (Sinusoidal Projection). | 82K | |||
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Global Map of Mars (Mollweide Projection). | Caption | STScI-PRC99-27e | 42K | Hi-res |
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Martian southern polar region mosaic. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | 77K | |||
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The largest known volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mars Digital Image Model (MDIM) CD-ROM set. | Caption | MG20N133 | 215K | Hi-res |
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Close-up mosaic of Olympus Mons' caldera. | 99K | |||
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Mariner 9 image of the "Inca City". During the Mariner 9 mission, scientists found an unusual rectilinear structure associated with the south polar pitted terrain which they dubbed the "Inca City". Located near -80 degrees latitude and 64 degrees longitude, it is likely the result of wind deflation of deposits from underlying rough terrain. The "cells" in the image are about 4-5 kilometers in width. | Frame number 4212-15 | 51K | ||
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Viking 2 image of the region around the "Inca City". Viking 2 also imaged the region, but no evidence of the feature was visible in this image from orbit 225. It has been enhanced to bring out the details (noise reduced and contrast enhanced). The resolution of the original image is 0.544 km/pixel and is centered at -81.56 degrees latitude and 69.82 degrees longitude. Reproduced from volume 55 of the Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. | F225B69 | 158K | Hi-res | |
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Viking 2 image of the region around the "Inca City". On a later orbit (421), Viking 2 again imaged the region. This time, the Inca City is clearly visible. This image was taken through the red filter. It has been enhanced to bring out the details (noise reduced and contrast enhanced). The resolution of this image is 0.146 km/pixel and is centered at -81.82 degrees latitude and 59.59 degrees longitude. Reproduced from volume 59 of the Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. | F421B64 | 128K | Hi-res |
The following images were taken by the Viking 1 and 2 orbiters. They are among the most requested images which NSSDCA archives. These images were taken of the region on Mars known as Cydonia Mensae and contain the feature commonly known as the "face". All of the images here have been rotated clockwise 90 degrees to reorient them so that north is toward the upper left corner. There are two versions of the images present here. The first of each pair is an unprocessed ("raw") version of the image taken of the area. Other than the processing necessary to create a JPEG image from the PDS formatted image file, the images are unchanged from the originals on Volumes 10, 11, 21, 28, and 63 of the Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. The second of each pair has had the noise level reduced and the image sharpened using Image4PDS, a freeware program available from NSSDCA. Finally, Color It!™ was used to adjust the contrast. (If you have any questions about the "face" on Mars, please refer to our Planetary Frequently Asked Questions page. Detailed information on the first two exposures (035A72 and 070A13) is also available.) The sizes of these images range from 120-504 KB.
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Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. | 035A72 | 301K | Hi-res | |
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Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. | 035A72 | 174K | ||
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Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. | 070A13 | 104K | Hi-res | |
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Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. | 070A13 | 178K | ||
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Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. | 561A25 | 74K | Hi-res | |
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Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. | 561A25 | 150K | ||
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Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. | 673B56 | 179K | Hi-res | |
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Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. | 673B56 | 164K | ||
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Raw image of Cydonia Mensae. | 753A33 | 490K | Hi-res | |
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Processed image of Cydonia Mensae. | 753A33 | 173K | ||
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The "face" on Mars. Taken from image 035A72. The image was clipped, inverted (to produce the usual orientation which has been published), magnified by a factor of three, and contrast enhanced again, all using Color It!™. (Note: Much of the "blocky" nature of the image is caused by the lossy compression scheme used in JPEG files.) | 9.9K | |||
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Unprocessed Mars Global Surveyor image of the Cydonia Mense region side-by-side with filtered and contrast enhanced version. (05 April 1998) | Caption | 1.6M | Hi-res | |
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Filtered and contrast enhanced Mars Global Surveyor close-up of the "face" feature (unmagnified). (05 April 1998) | Caption | 139K | Hi-res |
Note: More information on the image is available at our MGS Cydonia page. The full-resolution (9.6 MB) TIFF image of the region as released by the Mars Global Surveyor project is also at: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/hi-res/planetary/mars/mgs_cydonia1_raw.tiff.
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Viking 1 panorama of the Martian surface. | Caption | 316K | ||
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Viking 1 panorama of the Martian surface. | Caption | 109K | ||
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Viking 2 panorama of the Martian surface. | Caption | 513K | ||
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Viking 2 panorama of the Martian surface. | Caption | 642K |
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Mars' largest satellite, Phobos. Reproduced from Volume 14 of the Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. | F242A21 | 37K | ||
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Montage of three separate images of Phobos taken by Viking 1. | Caption | 74K | Hi-res | |
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Mars' smallest satellite, Deimos. Reproduced from Volume 59 of the Mission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. | F413B83 | 12K | Hi-res |
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Author/curator: Dr. Edwin V. Bell, II NSSDCA, Mail Code 690.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 +1-301-286-1187 ed.bell@nasa.gov |