NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Tithonium Yardangs
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1099, 22 May 2005
 NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems |
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows yardangs formed by wind erosion of materials exposed on the floor of western Tithonium Chasma. The winds responsible for these landforms blew from the north/northeast (top/upper right). Tithonium Chasma is part of the Valles Marineris system. |
Location near: 4.8°S, 89.5°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.
