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September 25, 2013

Features of Argyre Planitia
Features of Argyre 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 VIS image, taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter on July 6th, 2013, and during its 51.285th orbit around the Red Planet, we can see a few large Hills of Sand which are located on the Western Margin of the Martian Region known as Argyre Planitia


Latitude (centered): 47,623° South
Longitude (centered): 303,753° East
Instrument: VIS


This frame (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 17423 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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