PIA08677: Cut-off
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an unconformity in an exposure of the martian north polar layered material, at which older layers were cut-off and eroded before a new suite of layers was deposited above them.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
 Instrument:  Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) 
 Product Size:  916 x 1800 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1561  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA08677.tif (1.651 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA08677.jpg (330.5 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

21 August 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows an unconformity in an exposure of north polar layered material, at which older layers were cut-off and eroded before a new suite of layers was deposited above them. The terrain in the entire scene was covered by a thin frost of frozen carbon dioxide at the time this picture was acquired in June 2006.

Location near: 86.1°N, 208.5°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Spring

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2006-08-21