NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Sedimentary Rock in Candor
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-999, 11 February 2005
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows dozens of light- and a few dark-toned sedimentary rock layers exposed by faulting and erosion in western Candor Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris trough system. |
Location near: 6.5°S, 77.0°W |
Image width: ~3.0 km (~1.9 mi) |
Illumination from: upper left |
Season: Southern Autumn |
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.
