MOLA: Seasonal Snow Variations on Mars, Graph Showing Snow Variations at Both Poles, With Dates
This is a visualization of a series of graphs showing the seasonal changes in the Martian polar caps. This particular version includes both poles and the Martian year timestamp.
Seasonal Mars snow variations graph (with dates) showing both poles
Graph showing peak snow depth at Martian north pole
Graph showing peak snow depth at Martian south pole
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientists
- David Smith (NASA/GSFC)
- Maria Zuber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, December 6, 2001.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Series
This page can be found in the following series:Related papers
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/tharsis/snow_paper.html
Datasets used
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[MGS: MOLA]
ID: 59 -
[Viking]
ID: 130
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