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October 11, 2015

Pedestal Craters in Acidalia Planitia
Pedestal Craters in Acidalia Planitia

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

In this extraordinary VIS image, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter on August, 14th, 2004, and during its 11.833rd orbit around the Red Planet, we can see a really small part of the Martian Region known as Acidalia Planitia. Beautiful and extremely well preserved Unnamed Impact Craters with Pedestal can be seen all over the scene.


Latitude (centered): 45,96940° North
Longitude (centered): 5,75958° 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 19792) has been additionally processed, magnified to aid the visibility of the details, extra-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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