NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Cerberus Troughs
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1156, 18 July 2005
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows several dark-walled and dark-floored troughs, formed along fault trends radial to the Elysium volcanic rise, in the Cerberus region of Mars. The troughs cut through a plain that was earlier scoured by floods of the Athabasca Valles system. |
Location near: 10.5°N, 203.4°W |
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi) |
Illumination from: lower left |
Season: Northern 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.
