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NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Flooded Place

By SpaceRef Editor
July 26, 2006
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Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1535, 26 July 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 a portion of a flood-carved canyon within the larger Kasei Valles system on Mars. This canyon is the result of the very last flood event that poured through the Kasei valleys, long ago.
Location near: 21.1°N, 72.6°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Northern Spring


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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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