Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Orbiter Camera
Layers in Sulci Gordii
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-966, 9 January 2005
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This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows detailed layered rock features, mantled by fine dust, in the Sulci Gordii ridged region east of Olympus Mons. The scene is located near 21.9°N, 124.3°W. The picture covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) across, and is illuminated by sunlight from the left.
Malin Space Science Systems and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates the camera from its facilities in San Diego, California. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, California and Denver, Colorado.
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