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Icaria Planum is a Southern Region of Mars, located in the "Thaumasia Quadrangle"; this Region is approx. 566 Km across and it is centered at 43,27° South Latitude and 253,96° East Longitude. Icaria Planum was so named, in the AD 1979, after a so-called "Classic Albedo Feature" (such as a large, but not well (---> meaning in more than excellent detail) defined, Area located on the Surface of a Celestial Body, which is well visible through Earth-located telescopes and that shows a clear, peculiar and constant contrast, either in brighness or in darkness, with respect to the Reflectivity (---> Albedo) of the other Areas which are adjacent to it). The name of the Classic Albedo Feature (now known as Icaria Planum), as you should already know (but it is a good thing to remember it, anyway), was based on the land where Icarus lived (such as the Greek Island of Crete).

Mars Local Time: 14:49 (Early Afternoon)
Coord. (centered): 40,5° South Lat. and 357,0° East Long.
Spacecraft altitude: 247,9 Km (such as about 155,0 miles)
Original image scale range: 49,6 cm/pixel (with 2 x 2 binning) so objects ~ 1 mt and 49 cm across are resolved
Map projected scale: 50 cm/pixel
Map projection: EQUIRECTANGULAR
Emission Angle: 0,4°
Phase Angle: 67,2°
Solar Incidence Angle: 67° (meaning that the Sun was about 23° above the Local Horizon at the time the picture was taken)
Solar Longitude: 33,5° (Northern Spring - Southern Fall)
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Additional process. and coloring: Lunar Explorer Italia

This picture (which is a NASA - Original Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter CTX b/w frame, identified by the serial n. ESP_024955_1390) has been additionally processed and then colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Reconnaissance 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.