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Image produced in collaboration with the THEMIS team for NASA. Original text from the THEMIS webpage:
Data from THEMIS helped scientists choose a landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's next-generation rover spacecraft, due to arrive at Gale Crater in August 2012.
Image produced in collaboration with the THEMIS team for NASA. Original text from the THEMIS webpage:
Data from THEMIS helped scientists choose a landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA's next-generation rover spacecraft, due to arrive at Gale Crater in August 2012.
Perspective view of the map area looking toward the northeast, with the Candor Colles (low hills) in the foreground.
Perspective view of the map area looking toward the northeast, with the Candor Colles (low hills) in the foreground.
Enhanced color image of a hill in the Candor Colles region of Candor Chasma, Mars. Image is 1 km (0.62 miles) across.
Enhanced color image of a hill in the Candor Colles region of Candor Chasma, Mars. Image is 1 km (0.62 miles) across.
Mounds in Acidalia Planitia, Mars. These are almost certainly not cinder cones despite their appearance. Their alignment in rows is not typical of cinder cones on Earth; more likely these are mud volcanoes formed from the shaking of an impact event.
Mounds in Acidalia Planitia, Mars. These are almost certainly not cinder cones despite their appearance. Their alignment in rows is not typical of cinder cones on Earth; more likely these are mud volcanoes formed from the shaking of an impact event.
Cratered Cones in the Isidis Region, Mars. These are almost certainly not cinder cones despite their appearance. Their alignment in rows is not typical of cinder cones on Earth; more likely these are mud volcanoes formed from the shaking of an impact event.
Cratered Cones in the Isidis Region, Mars. These are almost certainly not cinder cones despite their appearance. Their alignment in rows is not typical of cinder cones on Earth; more likely these are mud volcanoes formed from the shaking of an impact event.
Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Published: May 7, 2008
This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Published: May 7, 2008
This global view of the surface of Venus is centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan synthetic aperture radar mosaics from the first cycle of Magellan mapping are mapped onto a computer-simulated globe to create this image.
Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) Jim Crowley (USGS), Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.
Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) Jim Crowley (USGS), Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.
Jim Crowley (USGS) and Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) studying acid lakes as mars analogs.
Jim Crowley (USGS) and Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona) studying acid lakes as mars analogs.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona. Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona. Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Jeff Kargel (University of Arizona), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Simon Hook (JPL), Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Simon Hook (JPL), Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Studying Earth as a Mars analog.
Jim Crowley (USGS) measuring pH in the acid lake Chandler in Australia.
Jim Crowley (USGS) measuring pH in the acid lake Chandler in Australia.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.
Jim Crowley (USGS), Nathan Bridges (JPL). Field trip to Australia to study acid lakes as Mars analogs.
Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia. Banded Iron Formation Hamersley Basin.
Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia. Banded Iron Formation Hamersley Basin.
Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
3.5 billion years old stromatolites. Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
3.5 billion years old stromatolites. Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Jim Crowley (USGS) searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Cratered cones near Hephaestus Fossae, Mars. This might look at first glance like a cinder cone, but it is more likely an impact crater. Using the shadow, one can tell that its floor is at a lower elevation than the surrounding landscape. A cinder cone would rise above the landscape.
Cratered cones near Hephaestus Fossae, Mars. This might look at first glance like a cinder cone, but it is more likely an impact crater. Using the shadow, one can tell that its floor is at a lower elevation than the surrounding landscape. A cinder cone would rise above the landscape.
Banded iron formation. Core room of Vale do Rio Doce Company, Carajás iron mine. Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Banded iron formation. Core room of Vale do Rio Doce Company, Carajás iron mine. Searching for life on Mars using Mars analogs in Australia.
Studying an iron mine as Mars analog.