PIA03208: "Sharks Teeth" -- Sand Dunes in Proctor Crater

Target Name: Mars Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun) Mission: Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Spacecraft: Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter Instrument: Mars Orbiter Camera Product Size: 836 samples x 2021 lines Produced By: Malin Space Science Systems Producer ID: MOC2-274 Primary Data Set: MGS EDRs Full-Res TIFF: PIA03208.tif (1.747 MB) Full-Res JPEG: PIA03208.jpg (314.3 kB)

Original Caption Released with Image: Sometimes, pictures received from Mars Global Surveyor's Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) are "just plain pretty." This image, taken in early September 2000, shows a group of sand dunes at the edge of a much larger field of dark-toned dunes in Proctor Crater. Located at 47.9°S, 330.4°W, in the 170 km (106 mile) diameter crater named for 19th Century British astronomer Richard A. Proctor (1837-1888), the dunes shown here are created by winds blowing largely from the east/northeast. A plethora of smaller, brighter ripples covers the substrate between the dunes. Sunlight illuminates them from the upper left. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS