September 12, 2013
Credits: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University (ASU) - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF
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In this VIS image, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter (using an InfraRed Filter) on June 26th, 2013, and during its 51.159th orbit around the Red Planet, we can see a small section of the Outflow Channel Network known as Samara Valles, a very long and sinuous Valley bordering the Memnonia Quadrangle and the Margaritifer Sinus Quadrangle. Samara Valles is located at approximately 25,1° South Latitude and 19,1° West Longitude (or 340,9° East Long.); it is approx. 615 Km (such as about 381,9 miles) long and it was so named after the ancient name of the Somme River (France). Latitude (centered): 22,392° South This frame (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 17438) has been additionally processed, magnified, contrast enhanced, Gamma corrected 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 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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