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Smile and Say “Olympus Mons”!

Published on 2005-05-20 by Mark VandeWettering

NASA does churn out some fairly interesting snapshots from their Mars missions, and this is no exception. The Mars Orbiter Camera onboard the Mars Global Surveyor snapped a picture of the Mars Odyssey as it went zipping by in orbit. Because the camera acquires images line by line, it actually appears twice in a single frame. Each image is about 7.5 seconds and 31 miles apart.

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