What kind of landforms will the Mars Odys-sey observe?
Phi Our Lady of Lourdes Bethesda, MD ANSWER: Good question, the Mars Odyssey has both a visible and thermal camera to take snap-shots of Mars with. The visible camera has 18-meter resolution, which means objects on the surface of the planet bigger then 18-meters (60 feet) will be seen in the images. We will eventually get an entire map of the surface at the scale! That means we can search the whole surface of Mars and easily see things as small as houses. Landforms on Mars at that scale include; tons of craters, volcanoes, lava flows, channels, canyons and much more. The thermal camera has 100-meter (330 feet) resolution and will be used to map the mineral and rocks.
