Frosty Mars Mugs for Camera

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Global Surveyor at November 29, 2000 12:00 PM

NASA has released a quartet of Martian images that show several of the Red Planet’s numerous craters patched with snow-white frost. The American space agency’s Mars Global Surveyor orbiter captured the images as part of its ongoing monitoring of the seasonal advance and retreat of polar frosts on the planet’ s surface. The four images render wide-angle views of four distinct craters -- two each in Mars' northern and southern hemispheres. They are located the middle polar latitudes of each hemisphere.