• Large orb covered in photos of craters and mountains on Mars. The color is a brownish gray due to the black and white television images used to create it.
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    This photomosaic globe of Mars was produced at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory using photographs from the Mariner 9 spacecraft that imaged the red planet from orbit from 14 November 1971 to 27 October 1972. This globe represents not only the first photomosaic globe of Mars ever made, but the first such photomosaic made of any planetary body.

Created by

Eric Long

Date Created

11/28/2017

Source

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Exploration; Mars; Planetary; Solar System; Space

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