Washington: The US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed the sharpest map of Mars to date, which not only includes the topographical and thermal information about the planet but also specifies the properties of the Martian surface.
Images captured by the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet enabled the development of the new map, which improves previous versions dating back to the 1970s and the 1980s, the USGS stated on its website.
The map employs the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a tool that captures thermal emission images, based on the infrared radiation spectrum installed on the Odyssey.
"We used more than 20,000 THEMIS nighttime temperature images to generate the highest resolution surface property map of Mars ever created", Fergason claimed so in a statement on the website of Arizona State University.
She explained that "darker areas in the map are cooler at night, have a lower thermal inertia, and likely contain fine particles such as dust, silt, or fine sand".
Images captured by the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet enabled the development of the new map, which improves previous versions dating back to the 1970s and the 1980s, the USGS stated on its website.
The map employs the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a tool that captures thermal emission images, based on the infrared radiation spectrum installed on the Odyssey.
"We used more than 20,000 THEMIS nighttime temperature images to generate the highest resolution surface property map of Mars ever created", Fergason claimed so in a statement on the website of Arizona State University.
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She explained that "darker areas in the map are cooler at night, have a lower thermal inertia, and likely contain fine particles such as dust, silt, or fine sand".
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