Oxia Palus (Gradfeld)

The Oxia-Palus - degree field one of the 30 degree field of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-11, the degree field covers the area from 0 ° to 45 ° west longitude and from 0 ° to 30 ° south latitude .

The name comes from an albedo feature on Mars, the area was named after the Amu Darya river , which was called "Oxus" in ancient times. The Mars Pathfinder landed here on July 4, 1997. The craters within the Gradfeld bear the names of the “Who's Who” of astronomy, for example Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci , but also Curie , Becquerel , and Rutherford .

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Individual evidence

↑ Oxia Palus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
↑ Coordinates of the landing zone 19 ° 7 ′ 48 ″ N , 33 ° 13 ′ 12 ″ WMars 19.13 -33.22
^ US department of the Interior US Geological Survey, Topographic Map of the Eastern Region of Mars M 15M 0/270 2AT, 1991
↑ 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] Oxia Palus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS

[2] Coordinates of the landing zone 19 ° 7 ′ 48 ″ N , 33 ° 13 ′ 12 ″ WMars 19.13 -33.22

[3] US department of the Interior US Geological Survey, Topographic Map of the Eastern Region of Mars M 15M 0/270 2AT, 1991

[mapping_mars-4] Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.

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

[6] 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.