NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Lonely Butte
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1214, 14 September 2005
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a lonely, light-toned butte composed of sedimentary rock in northern Sinus Meridiani. The dark landscape that surrounds the butte was once covered by the same rocks that make up this lonely remnant. |
Location near: 2.5°N, 4.2°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.
