Mars moon Phobos: THEMIS Camera onboard NASA s Mars Odyssey captures first picture and it s amazing
Mars moon Phobos: THEMIS Camera onboard NASA s Mars Odyssey captures first picture and it s amazing
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Camera On NASA s Mars Odyssey Orbiter Observed Phobos On September 29. Researchers Combined Visible-wavelength And Infrared Data To Produce An Image Colour-coded For Surface Temperatures Of This Moon, Which Has Been Considered For A Potential Future Human-mission Outpost.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Neha Singh | Updated on: 09 Oct 2017, 07:24:37 PM
New Delhi:
NASA s Odyssey orbiter for the first time has taken a look at the Phobos and has successfully produced a colour-coded image. This is one of the longest-lived missions to Mars and has revealed surface temperatures of the Martian moon considered to be a potential future human-mission outpost.
Areas emitting colder temperatures are depicted in bluer tints, with warmer geographic features indicated in sun-splashed yellows and oranges. This particular image covers an area some 19 miles wide.
Similar to Earth, the Martian polar regions are the most frigid places on the planet, with much of the ice sublimating directly back to gas during the Southern Hemisphere s summer, and temperatures plunging to minus 220 degrees Fahrenheit in wintertime.
NASA s Mars Odyssey Orbiter blasted off from Earth back on April 7, 2001 (hence the nod to Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick s classic movie) and has become the agency s most hardy Martian spacecraft ever. It holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around another planet, having entered its orbital embrace on Oct. 24, 2001.
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The Mars Odyssey spacecraft was launched into space on April 7, 2001, with the objective to develop a map that could outline the compositions of the Martian landscape.
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