PIA06958: Degraded Crater
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the degraded remnants of an old meteor impact crater located in the fretted terrains north of Arabia Terra 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:  836 x 1254 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-886  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA06958.tif (1.05 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA06958.jpg (253.9 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

21 October 2004
Near the center of this Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image lies the degraded remnants of an old meteor impact crater. The terrain in which it occurs is a heavily eroded, north middle-latitude surface. The image is located in the fretted terrains north of Arabia Terra near 41.3°N, 305.8°W. The image covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide and sunlight illuminates the scene from the lower left.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2004-10-21