Mars southern polar region, MOLA surface image
Mars southern polar region, MOLA surface image. Satellite image of the south polar region of Mars, showing the upper surface and topography of the ice layers found in this area. The key at lower left shows the elevations coloured-coded from purple and blue (lowest) through green and yellow to red (highest). The southern polar region of Mars consists of an ice cap (black boundary) of layered ice deposits. It reaches a thickness of more than kilometres and is mostly water ice. Image data collected between 1997 and 2001 by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter. This image, published in 2007, shows an area that is 16700 by 1800 kilometres. For the subsurface topography below the ice cap, see image C040/0916.
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