CRISM: From the surface up

CRISM_FeaturedImage_LMB2B71_Compressed2These CRISM images are mostly used to study the different gases and aerosols within Mars’s atmosphere, but they also give a great perspective on how thin the atmosphere really is. Surface features from the bottom of the image can be seen until the instrument slowly starts to tilt up to look at the atmosphere. The end of view of the planet is right at the ‘P’ in the ‘ATMOSPHERE’ label. From there to space (black), you see only the hazy Martian atmosphere… [More at link]

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