NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Elysium Summit
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1364, 5 February 2006
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a channel extending northward from the Elysium Mons caldera at the volcano’s summit. The north wall of the caldera—the summit depression formed by collapse as magma withdraws‚is located at the south end (bottom) of this picture. |
Location near: 24.8°N, 213.3°W |
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi) |
Illumination from: lower left |
Season: Northern Autumn |
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.
