This is one of a series of visualizations showing false-colored renderings of the Martian topography measured by MOLA in the vicinity of the Mars Polar Lander landing site. Blue tones represent elevations of less than 2 kilometers, while reddish tones are greater than about 2.8 kilometers, relative to the mean equatorial height of Mars. The elevation of the landing site is about 2.4 km, midway into the polar layered terrain. The 400 meters (1-4 mile) resolution of the MOLA data gives a smoothed but vertically exaggerated view of the topography. At this scale it is impossible to ascertain the actual roughness at the landers destination, forcing project directors to make their best guesses based on available data.

This is one of a series of visualizations showing false-colored renderings of the Martian topography measured by MOLA in the vicinity of the Mars Polar Lander landing site. Blue tones represent elevations of less than 2 kilometers, while reddish tones are greater than about 2.8 kilometers, relative to the mean equatorial height of Mars. The elevation of the landing site is about 2.4 km, midway into the polar layered terrain. The 400 meters (1-4 mile) resolution of the MOLA data gives a smoothed but vertically exaggerated view of the topography. At this scale it is impossible to ascertain the actual roughness at the landers destination, forcing project directors to make their best guesses based on available data.

This is one of a series of visualizations showing false-colored renderings of the Martian topography measured by MOLA in the vicinity of the Mars Polar Lander landing site. Blue tones represent elevations of less than 2 kilometers, while reddish tones are greater than about 2.8 kilometers, relative to the mean equatorial height of Mars. The elevation of the landing site is about 2.4 km, midway into the polar layered terrain. The 400 meters (1-4 mile) resolution of the MOLA data gives a smoothed but vertically exaggerated view of the topography. At this scale it is impossible to ascertain the actual roughness at the landers destination, forcing project directors to make their best guesses based on available data.

This visualization shows how Mars might look with an ocean at -500m where the lowest point on Mars is about -8000m and the highest point is about 22000m. Data from The FUSE spacecraft and from the Mars Global Surveyor-MOLA instrument where used to support this theory.

This visualization shows a match render of Mars without oceans to accompany the rendering of Mars with oceans (animation id 2291).

The entire narrated Images video made for Supercomputing 97

This is a visualization of the clouds near the Marian polar caps measured using the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows both poles, with dates, and with contours

This is a visualization of the clouds near the Marian polar caps measured using the MOLA instrument. This particular animation shows just the north pole, with dates, and with contours.

This is a visualization of a series of graphs showing the seasonal changes in the Martian polar caps. This particular version includes both poles and the Martian year timestamp.

This is a visualization of a series of graphs showing the seasonal changes in the Martian polar caps. This particular version includes just the north pole and the Martian year timestamp.

These are draft renders of Mars using MOLA data for Topography and Viking data (true color) for the surface texture. One of these was picked and used by Nature on the cover of Insight on 12 July 2001. The same image was used on the cover of the Planetary Report July-August 2001.

These stills were generated as possible cover images for Science. Science did not select one of these - instead they selected a MOC image.

Rotating Mars with the MOLA Surface Topography with Viking Texture Map

Mars Globe showing a cutaway revealing the MOHO data.

MOLA takes elevation data of Mars North Pole combined with Viking color-map

Mars Odysseys Gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) instrument has detected large amounts of Hydrogen on Mars, particularly near the south pole. This is an indication that water ice exists in the upper meter of these areas of the Martian surface. The epithermal neutron data ranges from 0 to about 12 counts per second. The blue areas indicate high concentrations of Hydrogen (low epithermal neutron counts). A series of animations was generated to support a Space Science Update (SSU) on the topic. These animations were match-rendered with unsmoothed, smoothed, and viking true-color data.

This is one of a series of visualizations showing false-colored renderings of the Martian topography measured by MOLA in the vicinity of the Mars Polar Lander landing site. Blue tones represent elevations of less than 2 kilometers, while reddish tones are greater than about 2.8 kilometers, relative to the mean equatorial height of Mars. The elevation of the landing site is about 2.4 km, midway into the polar layered terrain. The 400 meters (1-4 mile) resolution of the MOLA data gives a smoothed but vertically exaggerated view of the topography. At this scale it is impossible to ascertain the actual roughness at the landers destination, forcing project directors to make their best guesses based on available data.

Watching Viking imagery data of the southern hemisphere of Mars on a rotating globe

This view of Olympus Mons was constructed by combining the Viking color texture with MOLA altimetry data. There is no vertical exaggeration applied to the surface displacement.