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PIA04548: Gullies in Terraced Crater Wall
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the upper crater wall and emergent from the slope of a lower terrace on Mars.
 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:  540 x 810 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA04548.tif (438.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04548.jpg (89.34 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-375, 29 May 2003

Gullies--possibly formed by a liquid such as water in the recent martian past--formed at two different levels in the walls of a meteor impact crater near 36.2°S, 185.5°W. This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows gullies in the upper crater wall (top of the image) and emergent from the slope of a lower terrace (bottom of the image). Sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper left.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2003-05-30