GLOBAL IMAGES OF MARS

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	NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of Mars, taken on Sept. 12, one day after the arrival of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft and only five hours before the beginning of autumn in the Martian northern hemisphere.
	NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images of Mars, taken on June 27, 1997 (left) and July 9, 1997 (right), showing the dissipation of a large dust storm in the 12 days separating the two observations.
	The sharpest view of Mars ever taken from Earth was acquired by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This portrait was taken with the HST Wide Field Planetary Camera- 2 (WFPC2) on March 10, 1997, just before Mars opposition, when the red planet made one of its closest passes to the Earth (about 60 million miles or 100 million km).
	Photograph of the planet Mars taken at 8:52 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on July 26 by the high-resolution, narrow-angle telescope of the Mars Observer camera. Communication with the Mars Observer was lost 25 days later.
	Image taken by the Mars Global Surveyor. Color composite of condensate clouds over Tharsis made from red and blue images with a synthesized green channel.
	The MOC wide angle cameras, suffered from extremely distorted viewing geometry during aerobraking. However, by combining knowledge of the spacecraft motion and the understanding of the distortions within the camera lenses, it is possible to reconstruct the data as if viewed from a specific point in the orbit. This image is a view of Mars as it would appear to a person with a wide angle lens at an altitude of about 2700 km (1690 mi) above the planet.
	This image was of Mars made by combining MOC wide angle images from several orbits during the first week of March 1999, when MGS reached its final mapping orbit. The blue and red lines are the edges of the original pictures. Thick blue-white water ice clouds can be seen surrounding and obscuring the northern-most volcano in the Tharsis Montes region (left). More clouds can also be seen over Lunae Planum (center) and Chryse Planitia (center right).
	Same image after further processing, released in April 1999.
	Another global image of Mars taken in March 1999. The blue and red lines are the edges of the original pictures. In this image, faint clouds are seen over Arabia (bright region in the center left) while thicker clouds can be seen over the Syrtis Major region (dark, triangular area toward the right). Thick southern winter clouds seem to be "ponded" within the Hellas Basin near the bottom of the image.
	Same image after further processing, released in April 1999.
	This image represents about 1000 Viking Orbiter red- and violet-filter images, which have been processed to provide global color coverage of Mars.
	Global image of Mars from the Viking Orbiter.
	Global image of Mars from the Viking Orbiter.