NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Inverted Channels 05-15-2005
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1092, 15 May 2005
![]() NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows the inverted traces of old channels in a complex, wind-eroded fan located in the Aeolis region of Mars. |
Location near: 6.3°S, 208.9°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.