PIA00800: Medusae Fossae #1
Extensive wind-swept plains of the Medusae Fossae formation on Mars are seen in this image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter.
 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:  573 x 906 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-20B P49732 MRPS87574  
 Addition Date:  1998-03-13 
 Other  
Information: 		 Science Magazine Article 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00800.tif (291.2 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00800.jpg (136.8 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Extensive wind-swept plains of the Medusae Fossae formation on Mars. This northern subframe image, frame 3104, is of a 3.0 x 4.7 km area centered near 2.4 degrees north, 163.8 degrees west.

Figure caption from Science Magazine.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
1998-03-13