Terra Sabaea - False Color

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image is located between Terra Sabaea and Isidis Planitia basin. Blue tones in this band configuration indicate basaltic sands. The sands are more prevalent in the plains at the upper frame part of the image, and only occur in limited number of depressions in the bottom half of the image. The underlying reason for the difference may related to sand abundance or sand mobility by the wind.

The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V61560029 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
18.3868
79.0246
61560
2015-10-30 14:44
Tue, 2019-03-05
VIS
256 pixels (19 km)
3792 pixels (280 km)
0.073952 km/pixel
0.0746273 km/pixel

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