NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Outcrop In Juventae Chasma
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-433, 26 July 2003
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Light-toned sedimentary rock outcrops are common on the floors
of the chasms associated with the Valles Marineris system
and neighboring outflow channels.
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image
shows an outcrop of sedimentary rock in Juventae Chasma
near 4.1°S, 62.0°W.
The scene is illuminated by sunlight from the 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.