Status Report

NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Bouldery Surface

By SpaceRef Editor
August 11, 2003
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MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-449, 11 August 2003





NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
high resolution image shows part of the boulder-strewn surface of
an ejecta deposit from a meteor impact crater in Noachis Terra
at 49.7°S, 341.6°W. The impact process ejects bouldery
debris from the crater and deposits it all around the outside of
the crater.
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.

SpaceRef staff editor.