TES Team Monitors the Polar Regions of Mars

The goal of this page is to present up-to-date information about what the TES instrument observes in the Martian polar regions as well as results of analysis conducted at the USGS Flagstaff Field Center. Pages that are listed as being updated daily commonly show data from a few days ago. This is because there is a lag between data acquisition and downlink to Earth and processing once the data are received.

This page is graphics-intensive -- please be patient while it loads. Most of the links on this page lead to the USGS server and will open a new window in your browser.


Thermal bolometer image of the north polar cap (updated daily)		Thermal bolometer image of the south polar cap (updated daily)

Movie of south polar cap retreat		Current temperatures in the south polar region (updated weekly)

A historical view -- comparisons of TES and Viking IRTM measurements (updated weekly)		The Cryptic Region: Dark Dry Ice on the Southern Cap

Last year's recession of the Southern Cap		North Polar Cold Spots: Surface or Atmosphere?

Questions should be addressed to Tim Titus.
This page last updated 11 October 2000.