Astronomy Picture of the Day
July 22, 2015

Between Margaritifer Terra and Eos Chasma
Between Margaritifer Terra and Eos Chasma

Credits: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University (ASU) - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF

In this beautiful VIS image, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter on October, 19th, 2003, and during its 8.191st orbit around the Red Planet, we can see the so-called "Margin" existing between the Highlands of the Martian Region known as Margaritifer Terra and Eos Chasma. If you pay attention to the picture, you will be able to see an Unnamed Outflow Channel - visible near the center of the image - which empties into the aforementioned Chasma.


Latitude (centered): 10,784° South
Longitude (centered): 322,952° East
Instrument: VIS


This image (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter falsely colored and Map-Projected frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 19730) has been additionally processed, magnified to aid the visibility of the details, contrast enhanced and sharpened, Gamma corrected and then re-colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a normal human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.



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