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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a bright plain west of Schiaparelli Crater, Mars, some of them long-lived and others that are transient. The circular features scattered throughout are impact crater in a variety of states of degradation.
PIA08608:
Yard Sale
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows windblown materials that have collected and been shaped into large ripples in a valley in the Auqakuh Vallis system in northeastern Arabia Terra, Mars.
PIA08607:
Ripple Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows buttes and knobs of light-toned rock, perhaps sedimentary in origin, on the floor of Rabe Crater on Mars. The buttes and knobs are surrounded by dark, windblown sands that are crisscrossed dust devil tracks.
PIA08606:
Rabe Remnants
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows erosional remnants of layered rock and large windblown ripples on the floor of a crater in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars. The layered rocks are most likely sedimentary.
PIA08603:
Electric Polygons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows erosional remnants of layered rock and large windblown ripples on the floor of a crater in the Tyrrhena Terra region of Mars. The layered rocks are most likely sedimentary.
PIA08602:
Scalloped Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows terrain southwest of Meroe Patera in Syrtis Major Planum, Mars. Impact craters are common throughout the scene, including a small impact crater with light-toned ejecta radiating outward from its rim.
PIA08601:
Syrtis Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-July, 2006.
PIA08584:
Mars at Ls 79°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cone-shaped hill, perhaps a remnant of a material that was once more laterally extensive across the area, on a textured plain in the Hyperboreus Labyrinthus region in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08583:
Polar Cone
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of Syrtis Major Planum, dominated in this area by two impact craters of differing age.
PIA08582:
Big and Little
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered, light-toned exposures of probable sedimentary rock in Iani Chaos on Mars.
PIA08581:
Butte-ification
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies overlain by seasonal frost in the north wall of an unnamed crater west of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08580:
Gullies and Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the remains of leveed lava channels cutting across (west to east) a dust-covered plain composed of overlapping lava flows east of Olympus Mons on Mars.
PIA08579:
Lava Levees
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cratered plain west of Schiaparelli Crater, Mars. The area captured in this image, and areas adjacent to it, are known for high dust devil traffic.
PIA08575:
Rush Hour
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-July, 2006.
PIA08574:
Mars at Ls 79°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor image shows layers exposed by erosion in a trough within the north polar residual cap of Mars, diving beneath a younger covering of polar materials.
PIA08573:
Polar Diving
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a trough cutting across a dust-covered plain in the Labeatis Fossae region of Mars. Boulders derived from the layered exposures near the top of the trough walls are resting on the floor.
PIA08572:
Labeatis Trough
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dusty terrain near the west rim of Malea Patera, located southwest of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08571:
Malea Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dunes in the north polar region of Mars. In this springtime view, the dunes are largely covered by frozen carbon dioxide that was deposited during the winter months in the northern hemisphere.
PIA08570:
Aerodynamic
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows buttes and mesas surrounded by sand dunes on the floor of Rabe Crater, Mars. Gullies of uncertain origin cut sand dune surfaces in the top (north) quarter of the scene.
PIA08569:
Rabe Landforms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a particularly bright-looking part of the rock Halley, on Mars. Chemical composition of the bright spots is suggestive of a calcium sulfate mineral.
PIA08567:
Spirit Examines Light-Toned 'Halley' (False Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Microscopic Imager
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a particularly bright-looking part of the rock Halley, on Mars. Chemical composition of the bright spots is suggestive of a calcium sulfate mineral.
PIA08566:
Spirit Examines Light-Toned 'Halley' (Microscopic Image)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Panoramic Camera
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the outcrop-rimmed 'Beagle Crater' appearing on the horizon as the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity approached it on June 20, 2006. Blocks of ejecta can be seen around the prominent, raised rim of Beagle crater.
PIA08565:
Stretched View Showing 'Beagle Crater'
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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'Beagle Crater' on Opportunity's Horizon (Orbital View)
PIA08564:
'Beagle Crater' on Opportunity's Horizon (Orbital View)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a contact between a dust-covered plain and a dust-mantled, textured upland in the Memnonia Sulci region of Mars.
PIA08568:
Memnonia Landscape
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.575 MB)     JPEG (256.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-June 2006.
PIA08563:
Mars at Ls 66°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a spine of material exposed in the Sisyphi Planum region of Mars. Gullies can be seen on the deeply-shadowed ridge slope.
PIA08562:
Sisyphi Spine
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows v-shaped troughs in the Hephaestus Fossae region of Mars. Light-toned, windblown ripples reside in the very lowest parts of the troughs, as well as on the cratered upland outside the troughs.
PIA08561:
Cracked Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dust-mantled, layered remnants of sedimentary rock exposed by erosion on the floor of an unnamed crater located northeast of Crommelin Crater in Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA08560:
Stairways to ?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows sinuous ridges and other landforms exposed by erosion in the Aeolis region of Mars.
PIA08554:
Inverted Channels
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.144 MB)     JPEG (139.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the sinuous margin of a dust-covered, ridged lava flow in southern Daedalia Planum, Mars.
PIA08551:
Crumpled
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a mesa in eastern Candor Chasma on Mars.
PIA08550:
Skirted Mesa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars.
PIA08549:
Mars at Ls 66°: Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pair of partially-buried impact craters which are being exhumed on a plain east of Hellas in the Promethei Terra region Mars.
PIA08548:
Martian Spectacles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small gullies on the north wall of a crater within the much larger Green Crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. The gullies might have formed by seepage and runoff of ground water.
PIA08547:
Green Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a group of sand dunes, covered by seasonal carbon dioxide frost, in the martian north polar region. The carbon dioxide frost sublimes away, slowly revealing the dark sand that makes up the dunes.
PIA08546:
Frosted Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This anaglyph from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) shows layers in Galle Crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA08545:
Galle Bedding 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a mound of layered rock in places over-ridden by dark sand dunes occurring immediately south of the 'mouth' of Gale Crater (also know as 'Happy Face Crater') on Mars. Groups of layers cut across each other in places.
PIA08544:
Galle Bedding
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the outer edge of the south polar residual cap of Mars.
PIA08540:
Waning Cap
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars at Ls 66° in mid-June 2006.
PIA08539:
Mars at Ls 66°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a group of impact craters in Aonia Planum, Mars. Remarkably, two of the craters are approximately equal in size, however, they clearly differ in age.
PIA08536:
Age Relationship
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wide, flat-floored trough flanked by several smaller, branching troughs in the Olympica Fossae region of Mars. Dark- and intermediate-toned slope streaks, created by dry avalanches of dust, occur on the trough walls.
PIA08535:
Designer Troughs
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.391 MB)     JPEG (369.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a light-toned wind streak created in the lee, downwind side, of an impact crater in the Cyane Fossae region of Mars.
PIA08534:
Windswept
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small portion of a dust-covered plain directly north of Labyrinthus Noctis on Mars which is cut by three linear troughs.
PIA08524:
Intersection
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.709 MB)     JPEG (1.125 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a large dust devil flanked by two relatively small dust devils, moving together across a lightly-dusted, south high-latitude plain on Mars.
PIA08522:
Travelling Companions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows repeated layers of material, possibly a combination of dust and ice, or perhaps ancient sedimentary rock, exposed by erosion on a slope in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA08520:
Layer-Upon-Layer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-June 2006.
PIA08514:
Mars at Ls 66°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows blocky remnants of a material that was once more laterally extensive on the floor of an impact crater located NW of Herschel Crater. Large ripples of windblown sediment have accumulated around and between the blocks.
PIA08512:
Diced Remnant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered, light-toned, sedimentary rocks that have been exposed by erosion in Coprates Chasma, one of the many chasms which comprise the Valles Marineris trough system on Mars.
PIA08511:
Coprates Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dunes covered with a seasonally-deposited layer of solid carbon dioxide (CO2) in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08510:
Undercover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows material on the floor of a crater in Noachis Terra, west of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08507:
Security Blanket
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows windblown ripples on the floor of Auqakuh Vallis on Mars. The light-toned area, running diagonally across the scene may be dust that has accumulated in the bottom of the valley and on top of the ripples.
PIA08504:
Auqakuh Stripe
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a pedestal crater superposed on the floor of the much larger Mellish Crater. When an impact crater of this type forms, material is thrown onto the adjacent terrain to form portions of the ejecta blanket.
PIA08502:
Mellish Pedestal
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08498:
Mars at Ls 53°: North Polar Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops in northwest Schiaparelli Basin on Mars. The layers are all of about the same thickness (a few meters or less) and appear to have similar properties.
PIA08496:
Light-toned Terraces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a chain of collapse pits on a dust-mantled, lava-covered plain northeast of Ascraeus Mons -- one of the giant volcanoes located in the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA08494:
Pitted Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark sand dunes on the floor of an impact crater west of Hellas Planitia on Mars. Portions of the crater floor are exposed near the center but, in general, the floor is covered by large, windblown ripples.
PIA08492:
Ripples and Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of textures observed on a dust-covered plain in the Marte Valles region of Mars.
PIA08490:
Transitions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the north wall of a crater south of Proctor Crater in Noachis Terra on Mars. Dark streaks cutting across the scene were formed by passing dust devils.
PIA08486:
Breaking Trail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows billowing clouds of dust rising from a storm southeast of Hellas Planitia on Mars. The dust storm in this case obscured the Mars Orbiter Camera's view of the martian surface.
PIA08482:
Closing Window
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-May 2006.
PIA08481:
Mars at Ls 53°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a dust-covered plain northwest of Jovis Tholus on Mars which is host to several overlapping, ancient lava flows and a channel containing streamlined features indicative of fluid flow.
PIA08478:
Tharsis Potluck
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.099 MB)     JPEG (310 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows sand dunes overlain by a layer of seasonal carbon dioxide frost in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08477:
Polar Shells
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows remnants of layered materials near the west rim of South Crater, Mars. The composition of these layered rocks is unknown -- are they the remains of sedimentary rocks or accumulations of dust and ice?
PIA08476:
South Layers
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows outcrops of light-toned rock, interpreted to be sedimentary in origin, in east Candor Chasma on Mars. The exposures of light-toned rock are separated by areas of windblown ripples and dark sand.
PIA08471:
Candor Exposed
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows neighboring networks of gullies in the northwest wall of a south middle-latitude crater west of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08470:
Side-by-Side
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a chain of pits on a lava- and dust-covered plain northwest of Tharsis Tholus, one of the many volcanic constructs in the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA08469:
Into the Void
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This picture is a composite from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor of daily global images acquired at Ls 53° during a previous Mars year. This month, Mars looks similar, as Ls 53° occurs in mid-May 2006. The picture shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars.
PIA08468:
Mars at Ls 53°: Syrtis Major
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the very edge of the south polar residual cap of Mars. The bright areas, which appear somewhat like pieces of sliced Swiss cheese, are composed mainly of frozen carbon dioxide.
PIA08461:
Outer Dregs
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows partially-filled collapse pits on the eastern flank of Alba Patera, a large volcano in northern Tharsis.
PIA08460:
Union
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a small portion of Evros Vallis, an ancient valley located south of the large impact basin, Schiaparelli. In this image, the walls and floor of the valley, as well as the adjacent upland, are all mantled by dust.
PIA08459:
Evros Vallis
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a portion of the floor and wall of a trough in the Acheron Fossae region of Mars. Mass movements of dry dust have created the dark slope streaks on the wall of the trough.
PIA08458:
Acheron Trough
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows adjacent impact craters located north-northwest of the Acheron Fossae region of Mars. The two craters are of similar size and formed by meteor impacts.
PIA08457:
Filled Craters
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a summertime view of the south polar residual cap of Mars. In this image, mesas composed largely of solid carbon dioxide are separated from one another by irregularly-shaped depressions.
PIA08456:
Residual Cap
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image is of daily global images acquired at Ls 53° during a previous Mars year. This month, Mars looks similar, as Ls 53° occurs in mid-May 2006. The picture shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars.
PIA08450:
Mars at Ls 53°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor highlights the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's approach toward 'Victoria Crater' on April 29, 2006.
PIA08447:
'Victoria' on Opportunity's Horizon (Orbital View)
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows dunes in the north polar region of Mars covered by a layer of carbon dioxide frost that accumulated during the winter in 2005. Dark spots indicate areas where frost has begun to sublime away.
PIA08437:
Polar Plumage
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows wind-eroded outcrops overlying lava flow surfaces located west of Olympus Mons. Outcrops with this appearance are called yardangs.
PIA08436:
Under Attack
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor shows a wind streak created in the lee (downwind side) of a crater in far eastern Chryse Planitia. The winds responsible for the formation of the streak blew from the northeast to the southwest.
PIA08435:
Chryse Streak
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows the outer edge of the south polar residual cap of Mars during southern summer.
PIA08434:
Summer Modification
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows ancient, dust-covered lava flows and remains of leveed lava channels located on a plain northwest of Jovis Tholus. Jovis is a relatively small volcano in the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA08433:
Ancient Tharsis Flows
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a relatively flat plain in Acidalia Planitia. The circular feature near the left (west) edge is the surface manifestation of a buried impact crater, a common feature observed on the northern plains of Mars.
PIA08432:
Acidalia Plain
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor composite of daily global images acquired at Ls 53° during a previous Mars year. This month, Mars looks similar, as Ls 53° occurs in mid-May 2006. The picture shows the Tharsis face of Mars.
PIA08431:
Mars at Ls 53°: Tharsis
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows dark sand dunes superposed on layered, light-toned outcrops -- interpreted to be sedimentary rocks -- in Melas Chasma. Melas Chasma is part of the enormous Valles Marineris trough system.
PIA08109:
Melas Materials
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a variety of materials found on the floor of an impact crater northwest of Hellas Planitia.
PIA08108:
Tiled Floor
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows an undulating scene in the south polar region of Mars. Small, elevated mesas of smooth, relatively homogeneous-appearing material are separated by low-lying regions that are speckled and darkened.
PIA08107:
South Polar Designs
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a plain southeast of Hebrus Valles that is cut by a network of intersecting troughs. Large, windblown -- and perhaps wind-eroded -- ripples occur on the trough floors.
PIA08106:
Mars Maze
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows an array of gullies in the north-northwest wall of a crater in Terra Cimmeria.
PIA08105:
Gullies Galore
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark-toned sand dunes on the floor of Russell Crater in south-central, Noachis Terra on Mars.
PIA08102:
Russell Extravaganza
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-March 2006.
PIA08101:
Mars at Ls 39°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a portion of the south polar residual cap of Mars. The bright, relatively homogeneous-appearing material extending from top (north) to bottom (south) is mainly composed of solid carbon dioxide.
PIA08091:
CO2 Hourglass
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows small ridges in the Memnonia region of Mars. The ridges or yardangs, as they are called, are formed by wind erosion.
PIA08090:
Memnonia Texture
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a portion of the south polar residual cap; darkened edges of the pits and mesas are evidence of the removal, by sublimation, of frozen carbon dioxide during the recent martian summer.
PIA08089:
South Polar Autumn
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dozens of dark slope streaks, created by dry avalanches of dust, extend from toward the base of dust-covered buttes. Large, dust-covered, windblown ripples surround the group.
PIA08087:
Aeolis Buttes
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a complex pattern of intersecting and overlapping troughs in the Olympica Fossae region of northern Tharsis.
PIA08085:
Olympica Fossae
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a contact between terrain which is completely mantled by a smooth-surfaced material (perhaps dust) and a rugged, cratered surface that is only partially dust-covered in the Noachis Terra region of Mars.
PIA08082:
Martian Blanket
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-April 2006.
PIA08080:
Mars at Ls 39°: Syrtis Major
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows a 1.5 meters (~5 feet) per pixel view of a crater in the Terra Cimmeria region of Mars. Several gullies extend from near the top of the crater rim, downslope toward the floor of the crater.
PIA08078:
Gullied Crater
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This NASA Mars Global Surveyor image shows the margin of an ancient, cratered, hummocky (rough) lava flow at just the point where it encroached upon a small impact crater east of the volcano, Tharsis Tholus.
PIA08077:
Out of Steam
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows large, relatively flat-lying, puzzle-like pieces in this scene are mesas composed largely of solid carbon dioxide.
PIA08076:
Incomplete Puzzle
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Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered rock outcrops in the central pit of an impact crater in the Thaumasia Planum region of Mars. The outcrops were tilted and broken-up by the extreme energy of the impact that formed the crater.
PIA08074:
Broken, Tilted Rocks
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