Status Report

NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Landslide in Aureum Chaos

By SpaceRef Editor
May 15, 2004
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Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-727, 15 May 2004




NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows the results of a small landslide off of a
hillslope in the Aureum Chaos region of Mars. Mass movement
occurred from right (the slope) to left (the lobate
feature pointed left).
Small dark dots in the landslide area are large boulders.
This feature is located
near 2.6°S, 24.5°W.
This picture covers an area approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) across
and is illuminated by sunlight from the left/upper 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.

SpaceRef staff editor.