The enigmas of mars(14) > 화 성

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MARS


SURFACE WATER ICE

The above third image is ESA's color context wide field of view image showing the location of the crater
the water ice is in as pointed out by the large white ESA arrow. Note that the tiny water ice field itself in this very
distant view can also be seen within the crater. ESA's color scheme is a bit much but otherwise the surrounding
terrain is displayed and self explanatory.

I've included the above fourth image of the North Polar Region from the MGS MOC science data. Note
that I have included a red box outline within which is the area on the Vastitas Borealis plain where the unnamed
crater and water ice is located. This demonstrates where this evidence site is relative to the central North Polar
Cap features.

For your information, here is ESA's 7/28/2005 official "Water Ice in Crater at Martian North Pole" report
on this including the availability of a large 13,100 kb high resolution JPG image as well as a fairly standard size 419 kb
image. You should be aware that this ESA colorized imaging seems to have been specifically prepared to appear
at Nature.com as a peer review piece and then for publication by NASA here at their Astronomy Picture of the Day.
It was then of course by design picked up from there for online publication on 7/29/2005 by the BBC News
UK Edition and then on 8/1/2005 by the News.Telegraph and no doubt other current and future publications
that I am unaware of.