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NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Frosty Crater

By SpaceRef Editor
April 13, 2005
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Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1060, 13 April 2005




NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems



This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a crater in southern winter with frost deposits on the northern wall.

Location near: 37.5°S, 222.1°W

Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)

Illumination from: upper left

Season: Southern Winter


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.