Mars Picture of the Day: Northern Sinus Meridiani Stereo

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-341, 25 April 2003

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This is a stereo (3-d anaglyph) composite of
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide
angle images of northern Sinus Meridiani near
2°N, 0°W. The light-toned materials at the south
(bottom) end of the picture are considered to be thick
(100-200 meters; 300-600 ft) exposures of sedimentary rock.
Several ancient meteor impact craters are being exhumed
from within these layered materials.
To view in stereo, use “3-d” glasses with red over
the left eye, and blue over the right. The picture
covers an area approximately 113 km (70 mi) wide;
north is up.

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.