Mars View   A view on Mars from an altitude of 13000 kilometers. Our position is longitude 100°W, latitude 20°S, some 800 kilometers south of Noctis Labyrinthus, the area of crisscrossing valleys in the center of the image. The local time is approaching noon. The long valley, east of Noctis Labyrinthus, is Valles Marineris. The three shield volcanoes to the west are (from north to south) Ascraeus Mons, Pavonis Mons, and Arsia Mons; the large volcano close to the terminator is Olympus Mons, Mars's highest mountain. The same view on a terraformed Mars can be found here. The texture for the Mars surface stems from Space-Graphics.com; so does the altitude map, used to improve the shadows of features close to the terminator. A very thin, in this image not really visible, atmosphere was added in POV-Ray.

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