Mars - Water Ice Clouds

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Nov. 10, 1997

Water ice clouds on Mars are seen in this image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.

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Target

Mars

Spacecraft

Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter

Instrument

Thermal Emission Spectrometer

Credit

NASA/JPL/ASU

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