PIA03268: Light-toned Rock
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows terrain in the vicinity of Erebus Crater on Mars, a substrate of light-toned rock, broken into polygonal forms, overlain by large, dark-toned, ripple-like drifts.
 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 1895 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1329  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA03268.tif (1.943 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA03268.jpg (488.4 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

1 January 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a scene reminiscent of some of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER-B), Opportunity, images of terrain in the vicinity of Erebus Crater -- a substrate of light-toned rock, broken into polygonal forms, overlain by large, dark-toned, ripple-like drifts. However, this scene is many hundreds of kilometers away from Meridiani Planum -- it lies on the floor of an old impact crater near the northwest rim of the giant Hellas Basin.

Location near: 21.0°S, 312.0°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Summer

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2006-01-01