Have a Happy Mars
Fri Feb 1, 2008 at 21:19 UTC
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) has been acquiring 6 meters (19.7 feet) per pixel images of Mars since October 2006. To date, more than 20% of Mars has been covered at this scale, and at least 1% more is added each month.
This picture of a crater resembling a "happy face" was acquired earlier this week on 28 January 2008. The unnamed crater is about 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) across.
It is located among the Nereidum Montes, north of the Argyre basin, near 45.1°S, 55.0°W. North is toward the right and sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper right.
This is a sub-frame of CTX image P15_007060_1371_XN_42S055W_080128. CTX data are archived with the NASA Planetary Data System every 3 months: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
High resolution image
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