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STATUS REPORT
Date Released:
Monday, July 24, 2006
Source: NASAJPL/MSSS
NASA Mars Picture of the Day: Gullied Recesses
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1533, 24 July 2006
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows gullies on the wall of a martian south mid-latitude impact crater. The channels in each gully head beneath an eroding overhang of layered rock, providing support for the hypothesis that some—if not all—martian gullies result from release of groundwater to the surface.
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Location near: 33.0°S, 213.4°W
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Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
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Illumination from: upper left
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Season: Southern Autumn
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Tips for Media Use
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.
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