PIA04122: Collapse Pits
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows aligned pits formed by collapse along a fault trend in the Tractus Catena region of Mars, in northern Tharsis.
 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:  2048 x 4144 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1165  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04122.tif (8.495 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04122.jpg (816.3 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

27 July 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.5 meters per pixel (~5 ft/pixel) view of aligned pits formed by collapse along a fault trend in the Tractus Catena region of Mars, in northern Tharsis.

Location near: 32.2°N, 101.7°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Northern Autumn

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2005-07-27