Before and During Mars' Global Dust Storm, variant
Edited Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MARCI PR image of Mars before and during the current global dust storm. Color/processing variant. The colors here are most definitely variant...
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22487
Original caption: Side-by-side movies shows how dust has enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
The view from May shows Valles Marineris chasms (left), Meridiani center, an autumn dust storm in Acidalia (top) and the early spring south polar cap (bottom). The view from July shows the same regions, but most of the surface was obscured by the planet-encircling dust cloud and haze.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, provided and operates MARCI. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft.
More information about Curiosity is online at www.nasa.gov/msl and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image Addition Date:
2018-07-19
Before and During Mars' Global Dust Storm, variant
Edited Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter MARCI PR image of Mars before and during the current global dust storm. Color/processing variant. The colors here are most definitely variant...
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22487
Original caption: Side-by-side movies shows how dust has enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
The view from May shows Valles Marineris chasms (left), Meridiani center, an autumn dust storm in Acidalia (top) and the early spring south polar cap (bottom). The view from July shows the same regions, but most of the surface was obscured by the planet-encircling dust cloud and haze.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, provided and operates MARCI. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft.
More information about Curiosity is online at www.nasa.gov/msl and mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Image Addition Date:
2018-07-19