PIA04563: Small Martian Mesa
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small mesa surrounded by a plain of dust-mantled dunes and ripples on Mars. Large, house-sized boulders have tumbled down the mesa slopes.
 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:  PIA04563.tif (438.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA04563.jpg (102.6 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-381, 4 June 2003

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image was acquired during the first week of June 2003. It shows a small mesa surrounded by a plain of dust-mantled dunes and ripples near 5.9°S, 202.8°W. Large, house-sized boulders have tumbled down the mesa slopes. This one of the highest resolution images from Mars, each pixel covers an area of 1.5 meters (5 feet) across. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2003-06-12