PIA08009: Tyrrhena Tongue
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a tongue of debris at the base of the wall of a large crater in Terra Tyrrhena on Mars. The tongue is the combined product of landsliding and emplacement of crater ejecta.
 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 1465 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1410  
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA08009.tif (985.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA08009.jpg (148 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

23 March 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a tongue of debris at the base of the wall of a large crater in Terra Tyrrhena. The tongue is the combined product of landsliding and emplacement of crater ejecta-a ~3 km (1.9 mi) wide impact crater formed on the rim of the larger crater and, when it did, it caused the movement which created the tongue. About one third of the crater that caused this can be seen near the southwest (lower left) corner of the image.

Location near: 21.1°S, 270.0°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Summer

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems

Image Addition Date:
2006-03-23