NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Valentine 2006
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1373, 14 February 2006
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
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Happy Valentine’s Day from the Mars
This somewhat heart-shaped, eroded and partially-filled |
Location near: 29.9°S, 165.2°W |
400 meter scale bar = ~1,312 feet |
Illumination from: lower right |
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.
