PIA04166: Valley Crossing
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the walls and floor of a valley in the western Memnonia region of Mars. The finely-textured ridges and pits found on the valley walls and upland outside of the valley were formed by wind erosion.
 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:  836 x 3868 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1193  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04166.tif (3.237 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04166.jpg (623.8 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

24 August 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows the walls and floor of a valley in the western Memnonia region of Mars. The finely-textured ridges and pits found on the valley walls and upland outside of the valley were formed by wind erosion.

Location near: 487.5°S, 155.8°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Southern Spring

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2005-08-24