Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Valentine's Day Space Photo.

Maybe Mars, not Venus, is the planet of love. Malin Space Science Systems in our hometown of San Diego has this photograph of the heart-shaped crater on Mars. (Here.)Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

-tdr

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Malin Space Science Systems and their Mars Orbital Camera onboard the Mars Global Surveyor have been photographing heart-shaped craters on the Martian surface since 1998. They haven't repeated one yet!

Plus the THEMIS instrument onboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey has also captured our heart with Valentine-shaped landform (this time a mesa) another image: http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060214a
 
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