Geography of Mars Network. Geography of Mars. As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all. Teachers - For your passion in guiding students on their quest. Partners - For your unwavering support and evangelism. Parents - For supporting the use of technology not only as an instrument of learning, but as a means of creating knowledge. We encourage everyone to continue to “Think, Create and Collaborate,” unleashing the power of technology to teach, share, and inspire. Best wishes, The Oracle Education Foundation. Mars Geography. Geography of Mars. Colorized map of Mars based on Viking orbiter images. Surface frost and water ice fog brighten the impact basin Hellas to the right of lower center; Syrtis Major just above it is darkened by winds that sweep dust off its basaltic surface.
Residual north and south polar ice caps are shown at upper and lower right. The geography of Mars, also known as areography, entails the delineation and characterization of regions on Mars. Martian geography is mainly focused on what is called physical geography on Earth; that is the distribution of physical features across Mars and their cartographic representations. History[edit] Map of Mars by Giovanni Schiaparelli. In September 1877, (a perihelic opposition of Mars occurred on September 5), Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli published the first detailed map of Mars. Following these observations, it was a long held belief that Mars contained vast seas and vegetation.
Image map of Mars[edit] Topography[edit] North Polar region with icecap. Gusev Crater. Maps of Mars. The Red Planetin 3D. Space Science News home New data from Mars Global Surveyor reveal the topography of Mars better than many continental regions on Earth From a NASA HQ press release May 27, 1999: An impact basin deep enough to swallow Mount Everest and surprising slopes in Valles Marineris highlight a global map of Mars that will influence scientific understanding of the red planet for years. Right: A false-color animation of Mars showing four hemispheric views at 90 degree intervals. Generated by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA), an instrument aboard NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, the high-resolution map represents 27 million elevation measurements gathered in 1998 and 1999.
"This incredible database means that we now know the topography of Mars better than many continental regions on Earth," said Dr. The massive Hellas impact basin in the Southern Hemisphere is another striking feature of the map. FIRST GLOBAL 3-D VIEW OF MARS REVEALS DEEP BASIN AND PATHWAYS FOR WATER FLOW - NASA HQ Press Release More. Mars Express - Geography of Mars. Geography of Mars The Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars Although Mars is a small planet – its radius is just a little over half of Earth's – we now know that it boasts scenery on a scale that makes Mount Everest and the Grand Canyon seem unimpressive by comparison. Running from the eastern flanks of the rise, roughly along the equator, is Valles Marineris.
This is a split in the Martian crust 4000 kilometres long (about a fifth of the distance around the whole of Mars), up to 600 kilometres wide and seven kilometres deep. The Grand Canyon is a mere 450 kilometres long, up to 29 kilometres wide and 1.6 kilometres deep. Size comparison between Earth and Mars Then there is the Hellas Basin in the southern hemisphere, which is an enormous impact crater 2300 kilometres in diameter and more than nine kilometres deep.
But perhaps most striking of all is the general difference in height and surface roughness between the northern and southern hemispheres. Geography of mars - The Solar System. Map-of-mars.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280x782 pixels) - Scaled (78%)