Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection
Title:
Exhuming Craters
Original Caption Released with Image:
30 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a wind-eroded landscape in the Amazonis Mensa region of far western Tharsis. Two meteor impact craters that formed in -- and then were buried by -- rock are now found in a state of partial-exhumation from within the wind-eroded material.

Location near: 2.0°N, 147.3°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn
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:
672 samples x 1285 lines
Producer ID:
MOC2-1168
facet_what:
Sun
facet_what:
Mars
facet_what:
Mensa
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:
30 July 2005
facet_when_year:
2005
Image #:
PIA04128
UID:
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA04128
orignial url:

Exhuming Craters