NASA Mars Pictureof the Day: Wind Streaks Among Flows

Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-943, 17 December 2004

NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
image shows dark wind streaks formed by removal of a thin
veneer of bright dust covering small craters and lava flow
surfaces northwest of Olympus Mons
near 28.4°N, 129.8°W. Streak orientations indicate
that the responsible winds blew from the east/southeast
(right/lower right) toward the west/northwest (left/upper left).
The image covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from
the lower 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.