NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Martian Meteor Crater

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-642, 20 February 2004

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows a fairly young meteor impact crater on Mars
that is about the same size (~ 1 kilometer; 0.62 miles) as
the famous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, U.S.A. Like
the Arizona crater, boulders of ejected bedrock can be seen
on the crater’s ejecta blanket and in the crater itself.
This crater is located in the Aethiopis region of Mars
near 4.7°N, 224.1°W.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the lower 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.