NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Daedalia Wind Streak
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-612, 21 January 2004
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This January 2004
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows a dark wind streak in the lee of a small
meteor impact crater in Daedalia Planum. The
dominant winds responsible for this streak blew from the
east (right).
This picture is located
near 17.1°S, 138.8°W, and covers an area 3 km (1.9 mi) wide.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the 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.