PIA06929: Schiaparelli's Sedimentary Rocks
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, finely-bedded sedimentary rocks in Schiaparelli Basin, a large impact crater located east of Sinus Meridiani 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:  2048 x 3072 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-874  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06929.tif (6.298 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06929.jpg (1.715 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

9 October 2004
Schiaparelli Basin is a large, 470 kilometer (~292 miles) impact crater located east of Sinus Meridiani. The basin might once have been the site of a large lake--that is, if the sedimentary rocks exposed on its northwestern floor were deposited in water. This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.5 meter per pixel (5 ft per pixel) view of some of the light-toned, finely-bedded sedimentary rocks in northwestern Schiaparelli. The image is located near 1.0°S, 346.0°W, and covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2004-10-09