Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Recent Movements: New Landslides in Less than 1 Martian Year
Original Caption Released with Image:
The picture on the left shows a comparison of the southeastern crater wall as it appeared on February 1, 1998, and again on November 18, 1999. (Note that the picture has been rotated relative to the context image at lower left). During the time between the two images, three new dark slope streaks formed (arrows, top right). The older streaks are lighter and fainter than these new, dark ones, suggesting that streaks fade with time. This means that, at least for the crater walls shown here, any streak that is dark is younger than any streak that is pale. The stereo anaglyph (requires red-blue "3-D glasses") at the lower right uses the two images of the crater rim to provide a 3-dimensional view. The anaglyph is helpful to see that the dark streaks really do occur on a slope. In addition, by viewing the anaglyph without 3-d glasses, one can easily identify the three new streaks because they appear as blue and have no red counterpart.

These three new slope streaks formed sometime between February 1998 and November 1999. Similar streaks were observed in the highest-resolution images from the Viking orbiters in the late 1970s, but for more than 20 years no one has known how recent these features might be, or how often they might form. Now, MOC is providing some exciting answers.
Addition Date:
2000-04-24
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/MSSS
Produced By:
Malin Space Science Systems
Mission:
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Spacecraft:
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
Target Name:
Mars
Is a satellite of:
Sol (our sun)
Instrument:
Mars Orbiter Camera
Product Size:
437 samples x 572 lines
Primary Data Set:
MGS EDRs
Producer ID:
MOC2-221C
MRPS96081
P50766
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Crater
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Viking
facet_what:
STEREO
facet_what:
Surveyor
facet_what:
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS)
facet_what:
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
facet_where:
Mars
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
February 1998
facet_when:
November 1999
facet_when:
February 1, 1998
facet_when:
November 18, 1999
facet_when_year:
1999
facet_when_year:
1998
Image #:
PIA02380
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA02380
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Recent Movements: New Landslides in Less than 1 Martian Year