South Polar Cap Thermal Retreat (TES)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ June 23, 1999

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the seasonal change of the south polar ice cap on Mars over a four-month period mapped by color-coding the variation in 25-micron wavelength brightness temperatures.

The seasonal change of the south polar ice cap over a four-month period is mapped by color-coding the variation in 25-micron wavelength brightness temperatures.

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Mission

Target

Mars

Spacecraft

Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter

Instrument

Thermal Emission Spectrometer

Credit

NASA/JPL/ASU

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