NASAThe longest running time Mars The mission has been sent back an unprecedented side view of the huge volcano rising before dawn.
On May 2, the Odyssey spacecraft captured as the sun crawled on the Martian horizon Arsia MonsThis is a towering long volcano that pierces the green mist that pierces the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
The 12-mile-high volcano (almost as high as the Mauna Loa in Hawaii) – pierces a veil of mist and appears like a monument to the ancient past on Earth. this space Snapshots are visually fascinating and scientifically inspiring.
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Every spring, the huge Martian clouds come back. Scientists have discovered the reason.
Arsia Montes sits on the southern end of the towering three-man volcano known as Tharsis Montes.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To get this view, Odyssey has to do what was originally made. Orbits that have been flying around Mars since 2001 usually point the camera directly to the surface of Earth. But over the past two years, scientists have begun rotating the spacecraft at 90 degrees toward the horizon. This adjustment allows NASA to study the changes in dust and ice clouds over the season.
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Although the image is still aerial view, the advantage is the horizon, similar to the way astronaut The Earth’s horizon can be seen 250 miles above the International Space Station. From this height, the Earth did not fill their entire field of view – there was enough distance and perspective to allow them to see the curved edges of the Earth satisfy the blackness of the space. Odyssey Flying over Mars At approximately the same height.
Arsia Montes sits on the southern end of the towering three-man volcano known as Tharsis Montes. The area of Tharsis is The largest volcano in the solar system. The lack of plate tectonics on the Red Planet makes them grow larger than anywhere on Earth.
Together they ruled the Martian landscape, sometimes covered by clouds, especially in the early hours. But, not just any clouds – these are made of water ice, which is a different species from the more common carbon dioxide clouds on Earth. Arsia Mons is the cloudiest of the three.
Scientists recently studied specific local clouds that occur on the mountain, known as the slender clouds of Arsia Mons. Transient function, 1,100 miles south of Marsin spring mornings last only about three hours before disappearing in the warm sunlight. It is formed by strong winds that are forced to the mountainside.
According to NASA Aphelion Cloud Belt. When Mars is the farthest sun.
This is Odyssey’s fourth-side image since 2023, and it is the first to show a volcano breaking through the clouds.
“We see some very significant seasonal differences in these horizon images,” NASA planetary scientist Michael D. Smith said in a statement. “This provides us with a new clue about how the atmosphere on Mars develops over time.”
