NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Crater with Streak 11-06-2004

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-902, 6 November 2004

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows a small meteor impact crater (approximately the
size of the famous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona) with
a bright wind streak on its west (left) side. Generally,
winds blowing from the east (right) have stripped away
bright dust everywhere but in the lee of the
crater. These landforms are located in eastern Kasei Valles
near 25.1°N, 60.8°W.
The picture covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left/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.