NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Landslide in Coprates 11-15-2004

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-911, 15 November 2004

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows the distal (far) end of a landslide deposit
in Coprates Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris
trough system. Large boulders, the size of buildings,
occur on the landslide surface. This October 2004
picture is located
near 15.3°S, 54.6°W, and
covers an area approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) across.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the 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.