Holden crater in an ice age

One of the hypotheses is that Mars might have know ice ages like we had them on earth.

This a visualization I made for the article in National Geographic January 2004 "Is there life on icy Mars?"

This visualization also appeared on some covers of NGM..








Resolution 1024x768

1/128 degree MOLA data

Height model made with
3DEM 17
and used as is
.