PIA06379: Exposed Crater
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows wind erosion has created yardang ridges and revealed the location of a formerly-buried meteor crater in in the Apollinaris Sulci region of 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:  672 x 1008 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-785  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06379.tif (678.3 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06379.jpg (146.4 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

12 July 2004
Wind erosion has created yardang ridges and revealed the location of a formerly-buried meteor crater (see lower left corner) in this Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image. This scene is located in the Apollinaris Sulci region near 11.4°S, 181.6°W, and covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide. Sunlight illuminates the landforms from the left/upper left.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2004-07-12