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Mars Atlas: Geological & Atmospheric Insights

This document provides an overview and summary of images captured by instruments onboard the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft. MOM has provided new insights into Mars' geology, atmosphere, and surface features through the use of instruments like the Mars Color Camera. The atlas showcases images of various morphological features on Mars like impact craters, channels, volcanic constructs, and atmospheric phenomena like dust storms. It aims to enhance scientific understanding of Mars through analysis of data from India's first interplanetary mission.

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Mars Atlas: Geological & Atmospheric Insights

This document provides an overview and summary of images captured by instruments onboard the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft. MOM has provided new insights into Mars' geology, atmosphere, and surface features through the use of instruments like the Mars Color Camera. The atlas showcases images of various morphological features on Mars like impact craters, channels, volcanic constructs, and atmospheric phenomena like dust storms. It aims to enhance scientific understanding of Mars through analysis of data from India's first interplanetary mission.

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About this Mars Atlas

Remote exploration of the Mars by various space missions like Mars-Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance
Orbiter (MRO) has provided a considerable amount of data to understand the geological features, its chemical
composition and atmospheric dynamics. However, the key questions about its geological evolution, absence of surface
water, loss of atmosphere etc. are not yet fully understood. With the launch of Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) on 5th
November 2013, India has ushered into a new era of Planetary Exploration of Mars and its environment. MOM spacecraft
carries five scientific instruments to do surveys for understanding the surface morphology, atmospheric processes like
dust in lower atmosphere, impact catering process, detection and quantification of Methane in the Martian Atmosphere, to
map the variability of surface temperature, studies related to neutral particles in the upper atmosphere and studies related
to escape of Martian atmosphere.

This scientific Mars atlas provide glimpses of the various morphological features and atmospheric phenomenon occurring xi
on Mars as captured by different instruments onboard Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), in particular by Mars Colour Camera
(MCC).

350 km

Mosaic of Valles Marineris from MCC data.


Contents

01 02 03
Background Global views of Mars Impact Craters
Global views of Mars 11
Solar System 01 Schiaparelli Crater 26
Dust detection on Mars 20
The Mars 03 Gale Crater 28
Mars seen in three colours 24
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) 04 Pital Crater 30

Sensors on board MOM 05 Huygens Crater 32

Orbit of MOM around Mars 06 Roddy Crater 34


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ISSDC and ISRO Planetary Dejnev Crater 36
Data Pipelines 07

04 05 06 07
Gradational Features Tectonic Features Volcanic Features Miscellaneous
Results
Channel Bar 52 Arsia Mons 102 Moons of Mars 111
Faults/Graben 78
Flow features 58 Wrinkle Ridges 98 Tharsis Montes 104 Global Albedo
Map of Mars 118
Wind Streaks 70 Tyrrhenus Mons 106
Temperature 120
mapping by TIS

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