This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image of layered sedimentary rock in a crater in northwestern Schiaparelli basin was acquired using the cPROTO technique described previously on 27 September 2004. MOC cPROTO images provide rare glimpses of the martian surface at the highest resolution ever achieved from orbit--in this case, nearly 50 centimeters (~20 inches) per pixel. The finely-layered rock shown here, and the repeated nature of the layers in the rock, are clues that these sediments may have been deposited in an intracrater lake.

Location near: 0.2°S, 345.7°W
150 m scale bar = ~164 yards
Illumination from: upper right
Season: Southern Summer