[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Images: November 27 - December 3, 2003

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:38 2004
Message-ID: <200312031613.IAA01274_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
November 27 - December 3, 2003

The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

o Windblown Sand Dunes (Released 27 November 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/27/index.html

o Work of Wind on Pavonis Mons (Released 28 November 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/28/index.html

o South Polar Layered Slop (Released 29 November 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/29/index.html

o South Polar Sand Dunes (Released 30 November 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/30/index.html

o Layer Outcrops and Dunes (Released 01 December 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/12/01/index.html

o Devil-Streaked Crater (Released 02 December 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/12/02/index.html

  The upper crust of Mars is layered, and interbedded with these layers
  are old, filled and buried meteor impact craters. In a few places on
  Mars, such as Arabia Terra, erosion has re-exposed some of the filled
  and buried craters. This October 2003 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars
  Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows an example. The larger circular feature
  was once a meteor crater. It was filled with sediment, then buried beneath
  younger rocks. The smaller circular feature is a younger impact crater
  that formed in the surface above the rocks that buried the large crater.
  Later, erosion removed all of the material that covered the larger, buried
  crater, except in the location of the small crater. This pair of martian
  landforms is located near 17.6°N, 312.8°W. The image covers an area
  3 km (1.9 mi) wide and is illuminated from the lower left.

o Exhuming Crater in Northeast Arabia (Released 03 December 2003)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/12/03/index.html
 
  The upper crust of Mars is layered, and interbedded with these layers
  are old, filled and buried meteor impact craters. In a few places on Mars,
  such as Arabia Terra, erosion has re-exposed some of the filled and buried
  craters. This October 2003 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera
  (MOC) image shows an example. The larger circular feature was once a meteor
  crater. It was filled with sediment, then buried beneath younger rocks. The
  smaller circular feature is a younger impact crater that formed in the surface
  above the rocks that buried the large crater. Later, erosion removed all of the
  material that covered the larger, buried crater, except in the location of the
  small crater. This pair of martian landforms is located near 17.6°N, 312.8°W.
  The image covers an area 3 km (1.9 mi) wide and is illuminated from the lower left.

All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived here:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 and has been
in Mars orbit since September 1997. It began its primary
mapping mission on March 8, 1999. 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 JPL for NASA's Office
of Space Science, Washington, DC. Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)
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, CA. 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, CA and Denver, CO.
Received on Wed 03 Dec 2003 11:13:40 AM PST