Viking orbital colorimetric images of Mars: Preliminary results

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Color reconstruction and ratios of orbital images of Mars confirm Earth-based measurements showing red/violet ratios for bright areas to be roughly 1.5 times greater than dark areas. The new results show complex variation among dark materials; dark streaks emanating from craters in southern cratered terrains are much bluer than dark materials of the north equatorial plains on which Viking 1 landed.

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Soderblom, L., 1976, Viking orbital colorimetric images of Mars: Preliminary results: Science, v. 194, no. 4260, p. 97-99, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.194.4260.97.

Publication type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Title Viking orbital colorimetric images of Mars: Preliminary results
Series title Science
DOI 10.1126/science.194.4260.97
Volume 194
Issue 4260
Year Published 1976
Language English
Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description 3 p.
First page 97
Last page 99
Other Geospatial Mars
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