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The residual south polar cap
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The residual south polar cap

22/09/2008 900 views 1 likes 224124 ID

This is a mosaic of images taken by the Mars Express’s Visible and Infrared Mineralogical Mapping Spectrometer, OMEGA. It shows the residual south polar cap at the end of northern winter on the Red Planet. The cap appears clearly asymmetric, its centre being displaced by 3° from the geographic pole.

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    ESA/ Image Courtesy of F. Altieri (IFSI-INAF) and the OMEGA team
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