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PIA08669: All Hail Hale
 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 3182 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems
 Producer ID:  MOC2-1553
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA08669.tif (6.523 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA08669.jpg (1.898 MB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

13 August 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows dried streambeds -- martian gullies -- in the mountainous central peak region of Hale Crater. Some scientists have suggested that the fluid which carved these gullies was liquid water, and that it either resulted from ancient snowmelt or from release of groundwater that percolated to the surface in the intensely fractured rock of Hale's central peak. In either case, the gullies are dry today, and dark sand can be seen as dunes near the right/lower right part of the image.

Location near: 35.8°S, 36.8°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:
2006-08-13