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Mars Global Surveyor: MOLA SHADR

August 25, 2026. The SHADR model is now archived in PDS4 in the shadr collection of the MGS MOLA Topography Derived bundle, which also contains the MOLA MEGDR topographic maps. The links on this page point to the PDS4 bundle, which is the maintained version of these data. The original PDS3 archive remains available for the time being.

Spherical Harmonics Topography Model

The MOLA Spherical Harmonics Topography Model  (SHADR) is a numerical transform of planetary radius values from the MOLA gridded data set (EGDR) into spherical harmonics using Simpson's Rule quadrature. When evaluated, the model gives absolute radius from Mars' center of mass in meters.

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gtm090aa.sha gtm090aa.xml

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Mars Orbital Data Explorer - Provides search, display, and download  tools for this data set.

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