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A Human Bird Eye View of Mars
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About this work
There have been several proposals to send people to Mars but not land them on the surface. Instead, they would either fly by Mars once and return to Earth, or orbit Mars for a period of time. Would they at least get spectacular naked-eye views of the Martian surface? Some parts of Mars would be interesting: for example the polar ice caps, and the bright (dust-covered) regions would be seen reasonably well, although the color is very uniform.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA Human Bird Eye View of Mars. NASA/JPL, 2016-09-08. Public domain. ID: PIA21040.
