PIA02073: Northern Plains
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows northern plains of Mars exhibit craters that often appear to be partly buried by or exhumed from beneath layers of pitted and eroded material.
 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:  1024 x 1514 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-150  
 Addition Date:  1999-07-19 
 Primary Data Set:  MGS EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02073.tif (1.344 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02073.jpg (411.9 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The northern plains of Mars exhibit craters that often appear to be partly buried by or exhumed from beneath layers of pitted and eroded material. This example was taken by MOC in August 1998.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/MSSS

Image Addition Date:
1999-07-19