Mars_topography_(MOLA_dataset)_with_poles_HiRes.jpg

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Summary

Description	English: Very high resolution topographic shaded relief map of Mars , based on the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data set from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The map has a resolution 0.125° (300 dots per inch) and is shown as a Mercator projection to latitude 70° north and south. The original NASA image has been modified by increasing the font size of the map grid and elevation key labels. Polar regions are added from enlarged crops of PIA02993; the areas from 60° to 75° latitude are in the transverse Mercator projection , and those from 75° to 90° latitude are in the Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection . Some of the features in this image have been annotated in Wikimedia Commons.
Date	19 May 2014
Source	https://attic.gsfc.nasa.gov/mola/images.html and http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02993
Author	NASA / JPL / USGS
Other versions	color elevation key Map of the north polar region of Mars (2000 × 2000 pixels, 1.45 MB) Map of the south polar region of Mars (2000 × 2000 pixels, 2.2 MB) Uncropped source map for polar regions (11,649 × 5,723 pixels, 10.49 MB) Mercator map of Mars without polar regions (12,140 × 6,940 pixels, 17.2 MB)


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