Press Release

Mars Global Surveyor Captures More Views of Gullies

By SpaceRef Editor
November 17, 2000
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NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, currently
orbiting Mars, simultaneously snapped both a wide-angle and
high-resolution view of Hale crater that show gullies —
possibly carved by water — in the peaks of sand dunes inside
the crater.

The Global Surveyor images, which support findings
release last spring, are available at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov ,
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs or
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/nov_00_hale/ .

Mars Global Surveyor is managed by the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory for NASA’s Office of Space Science, Washington,
D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena.

SpaceRef staff editor.