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NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Autumn Gullies

By SpaceRef Editor
September 29, 2006
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Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1600, 29 September 2006


Medium-sized view of MGS MOC Picture of the Day, updated daily


NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems


This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows gullies and cracked and stressed gully apron deposits in a south mid-latitude crater. Gullies can also be seen in the deep shadow on the north wall of the crater. These gullies might have formed by the erosive action of liquid water, sometime in the not-too-distant martian past.
Location near: 36.7°S, 206.2°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Autumn


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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.

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