Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Tikhonravov Layers
Original Caption Released with Image:
24 June 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a view of some of the circular pits and spectacular buttes and mesas formed in the frozen carbon dioxide of the martian south polar residual cap. The scarps that bound each pit and mesa have been observed by MOC to retreat at an average rate of about 3 meters (~3 yards) during each southern summer season that the spacecraft has been in orbit. A new summer season will start in mid-August 2005.

Location near: 86.9°S, 5.3°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Spring
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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:
1024 samples x 2121 lines
Producer ID:
MOC2-1132
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Polar
facet_what:
Mars
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:
August 2005
facet_when:
24 June 2005
facet_when_year:
2005
Image #:
PIA03966
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA03966
orignial url:

Tikhonravov Layers