File:Mars HST Mollweide map 1999.png

Summary

ABOUT THIS IMAGE: The four hemispheric views shown above have been combined into a full-color global map (called a Mollweide projection), showing the regions of Mars imaged by the Hubble telescope during the planet's closest approach to Earth. Latitudes below about 60 degrees south were not viewed by the telescope because the planet's north pole was tilted towards Earth during this time. This image is a composite of pictures taken with three filters: blues (410 nanometers), green (502 nanometers), and red (673 nanometers). The Hubble telescope's resolution is 12 miles per pixel (20 kilometers per pixel) near the Martian equator.

Object Name: Mars

Image Type: Astronomical

Photo Credit: Steve Lee (University of Colorado), Jim Bell (Cornell University), Mike Wolff (Space Science Institute), and NASA

Description

English: The four hemispheric views shown above have been combined into a full-color global map (called a Mollweide projection), showing the regions of Mars imaged by the Hubble telescope during the planet's closest approach to Earth.

Date

Composite of four images between April 27 and May 6, 1999.

Source

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire_collection/pr1999027f/ (Original Tif, resaved as PNG].)

Author

NASA.

Copyright status:

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