Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Orbiter Camera
Sedimentary Rocks in Melas
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1006, 18 February 2005
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
|
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
| This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a butte and several other landforms eroded into light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock in southern Melas Chasma. Melas is part of the vast Valles Marineris trough system. |
| Location near: 11.8°S, 74.6°W |
| Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi) |
| Illumination from: lower left |
| Season: Southern Spring |
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.
To MSSS Home Page