Public domain

Bonus Beauty

NASA / JPL · 2019-09-19 · photograph (digital archive)

From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

This observation was originally intended to image the "contact" between two terrain types: a rocky ridge separates the rugged left from the smoother right side. But during planning, a targeting specialist chose to extend the image further north (to the top), to capture a nearby crater. (Extending images for some extra coverage is common practice when data volume allows.) That extension has given us a bonus beauty!

NASA Image and Video Library’s own description

Subjects

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)Mars

Credit lineBonus Beauty. NASA/JPL, 2019-09-19. Public domain. ID: PIA23478.

Open in Explore View at source