Summertime View of Mars

Martian Cloud Cover

These color and black and white pictures of Mars were taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just two weeks after Earth made its closest approach to the Red Planet during the 1997 opposition. When the Hubble pictures were taken Mars was at a distance of 62 million miles (100...

Seasonal Changes in Mars' North Polar Ice Cap

These images, which seem to have been taken while NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was looking directly down on the Martian North Pole, were actually created by assembling mosaics of three sets of images taken by HST in October, 1996 and in January and March, 1997 and...

Four View of Mars In Northern Summer

Four faces of Mars as seen on March 30, 1997 are presented in this montage of NASA Hubble Space Telescope images. Proceeding in the order upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, lower-right, Mars has rotated about ninety degrees between each successive time step. For example the...

Seasonal Changes in the Martian North Polar Ice Cap

These views from above the Martian pole were assembled from mosaics of three sets of images and projected to appear as if from above. This series captures the seasonal retreat of the polar cap from its greatest extent of the year (October, 1996) at 60 degrees N latitude through...

Hubble and Viking Views of the Pathfinder Landing Site, July 4, 1997

Pathfinder is landing on the Ares Valles, shown at the center of a Hubble Space Telescope full-color disk of Mars. The next map is a closeup of the Hubble image, and finally the Viking image shows the terrain near the Mars Pathfinder landing site, marked by an oval.