Mars Picture of the Day: Daedalia Planum Wind Streak

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-332, 16 April 2003

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image
shows a complex streak formed by deposition and erosion of
sediment by wind in the lee of an impact crater in western
Daedalia Planum. The winds needed to create this feature blew
from the southeast (from the lower right).
The picture covers an area
3 km (1.9 mi)
wide near
10.1°S, 133.7°W.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the
upper left.

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.