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New Mars Images Show Close-Up View Of Giant Impact Crater

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JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
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Contact:  Mary Hardin 

INTERNET IMAGE ADVISORY                         November 8, 1999

NEW MARS IMAGES SHOW CLOSE-UP VIEW OF GIANT IMPACT CRATER 

     NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has taken a close-up 
look at a Martian impact crater that is three times the size of 
Earth's well-known Meteor Crater in Arizona.

     The new image, along with others taken during Mars Global 
Surveyor's ongoing mapping mission, are available at  
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov or http://www.msss.com .

     The detailed look at this impressive Martian feature shows 
many small windblown drifts, or dunes, in the low areas both 
within the crater and outside on the surrounding terrain. Some 
portions of the crater's walls exhibit outcrops of bare, layered 
rock. Large boulders, some bigger than school buses, have been 
dislodged from the walls and have tumbled down the slopes to the 
crater floor. 

     Mars Global Surveyor is the first mission in a long-term 
program of Mars exploration known as the Mars Surveyor Program 
that is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's 
Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.  JPL is a division of 
the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

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