Begin by zeroing in on a particular feature or area using the map. Visit the instrument site: Context Camera Instrument Site

From 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Mars, CTX takes images spanning 30 kilometers (almost 19 miles) of terrain.

As its name suggests, CTX will provide the wider context for the data collected by the other two instruments. CTX provides context CTX Digital Terrain Model of Candidate Mars 2020 Landing Site Columbia Hills East. The web map lets you find CTX images for areas on Mars just by pointing and clicking. The CTX camera was built by Malin Space Science Systems, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA. This digital terrain model (DTM) was produced as part of an effort to characterize topography within candidate landing ellipses for the Mars2020 mission and to … Then use filters to identify images available for that location. In essence, the process works as follows. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) is designed to obtain grayscale (black & white) images of Mars at 6 meters per pixel scale over a swath 30 kilometers wide.

The camera has a resolution of 6 meters per pixel.

The Context Camera (CTX) will make observations simultaneously with the high-resolution images collected by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) and data collected by the mineral-finding Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). All data used in the construction of the CTX global mosaic have been publicly released and are freely available via the NASA Planetary Data System. CTX will (1) provide context images for data acquired by other MRO instruments, (2) observe features of interest to NASA's Mars Exploration Program (e.g., candidate landing sites), and (3) conduct a scientific investigation, led by the MARCI team, of geologic, geomorphic, and meteorological processes on Mars. The team lead and supplier of CTX is Mike Malin from Malin Space Science Systems.