This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
| This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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A Trip Into Space  Mars Surface Views Mars - Polar Laminated Deposits |
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| See also: Mars Fact Sheet |   |
Viking 2 Orbiter image of polar valleys near the north pole of Mars. Within these valleys are exposed laminated polar deposits (the light and dark stratification visible within the valleys). This image is 65 km across. North is at ~10:30. (Viking Orbiter 065B74)
Last Update: 2004-Nov-27