Mare Australe (Gradfeld)

The Mare-Australe - degree field is one of the 30 degree fields of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-30, the degree field covers the area from 0 ° to 360 ° west longitude and from −90 ° to −65 ° south latitude .

The degree field covers the South Pole including the ice caps. The name comes from an albedo feature in Planum Australe , an ice cap surrounding the South Pole. The Mars Polar Lander crashed into this region.

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Web links

Commons : Mare Australe - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ ME Davies, RM Batson, SSC Wu: Geodesy and Cartography . In: HH Kieffer, BM Jakosky, CW Snyder, MS Matthews (eds.): Mars . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1992, ISBN 978-0-8165-1257-7 .
^ Mare Australe in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
↑ Patrick Moore and Robin Rees, ed. Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 130.
↑ Mars Polar Lander Official Website. In: mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
↑ NASA Reveals Probable Cause of Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space-2 Mission Failures. | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference. In: www.spaceref.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
↑ Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.
↑ PIA03467: The MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, February 16, 2002
↑ Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.

[1] ME Davies, RM Batson, SSC Wu: Geodesy and Cartography . In: HH Kieffer, BM Jakosky, CW Snyder, MS Matthews (eds.): Mars . University of Arizona Press, Tucson 1992, ISBN 978-0-8165-1257-7 .

[2] Mare Australe in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS

[3] Patrick Moore and Robin Rees, ed. Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 130.

[4] Mars Polar Lander Official Website. In: mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .

[5] NASA Reveals Probable Cause of Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space-2 Mission Failures. | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference. In: www.spaceref.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .

[mapping_mars-6] Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.

[7] PIA03467: The MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, February 16, 2002

[8] Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.