Mars southern polar region, MARSIS subsurface image. Satellite image of the south polar region of Mars, showing the subsurface (bedrock) topography (i
Mars southern polar region, MARSIS subsurface image. Satellite image of the south polar region of Mars, showing the subsurface (bedrock) topography (inside black line) below the ice layers. 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 of layered ice deposits (mostly water ice) up to kilometres thick. Depressions as deep as one kilometre are seen near the South Pole. Subsurface elevation data collected in 2005 and 2006 by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) on ESA's Mars Express orbiter. This image, published in 2007, shows an area that is 16700 by 1800 kilometres. For the surface topography, see image C040/0917.
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Photo credit: © NASA/JPL/ASI/ESA/Univ. of Rome/MOLA Science Team/USGS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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