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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows collapse pits on the lower east flank of Ascraeus Mons, a larger volcano in the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA03196:
Ascraeus Pits
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.239 MB)     JPEG (259.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the solidified remains of flows, probably lava, but possibly mud, in the Zephyria region of Mars, south of Cerberus.
PIA03195:
Zephyria Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.312 MB)     JPEG (278 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two small mesas, a hill, and other landforms in the highly-eroded landscape of eastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA03189:
East Arabia Landforms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.132 MB)     JPEG (314.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand dunes in Herschel Crater on Mars.
PIA03099:
Herschel's Dunes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.394 MB)     JPEG (150.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Mars' south polar scene, covered by bright, seasonal, carbon dioxide frost. The dark patches are areas where the frost has begun to sublime away.
PIA03098:
Defrosting Terrain
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.636 MB)     JPEG (292.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-November 2005.
PIA03097:
Mars at Ls 324°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a meteor impact crater in northern Tharsis. This crater is a bit more than 2 kilometers wide, about twice the size of the famous Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, USA. Many smaller craters are evident.
PIA03091:
Impact Crater
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.126 MB)     JPEG (213.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows outcrops of sedimentary rocks in a crater located just north of the Sinus Meridiani region on Mars. Perhaps the crater was once the site of a martian lake.
PIA03090:
Sedimentary Rocks
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.23 MB)     JPEG (185.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies and dust devil streaks on the slopes of a large dune in Russell Crater. Gullies on martian dunes typically occur only in the Noachis Terra region.
PIA03089:
Russell Dune Gullies
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.632 MB)     JPEG (285.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small landslide off a steep slope in southwestern Ophir Chasma on Mars.
PIA03088:
Ophir Landslide
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.181 MB)     JPEG (293.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cratered surface in Isidis Planitia, a martian lowland. Light-toned squiggles in this August 2005 image are large windblown ripples.
PIA03087:
Isidis Planitia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.956 MB)     JPEG (341.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock exposures in Terby Crater, just north of Hellas Planitia on Mars. These rocks might have formed from sediment deposited in a lake or a larger Hellas-filling sea.
PIA03085:
Terby's Layers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.771 MB)     JPEG (232 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-November 2005.
PIA03077:
Mars at Ls 324°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows irregular-shaped mesas in the south polar region of Mars. The bright patches are the remains of seasonal frost.
PIA03076:
South Polar Mesas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows mesas and other eroded landforms in eastern Arabia Terra, near Huo Hsing Vallis on Mars. Arabia Terra is generally a cratered terrain that has been severely eroded.
PIA03075:
East Arabia Mesas
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.242 MB)     JPEG (215.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater surrounded by thin flows in southeastern Kasei Valles on Mars. The flows might have been lava or mud. The picture was acquired in August 2005.
PIA03074:
Crater and Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.636 MB)     JPEG (382.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows flow materials among a suite of sharp ridges and grooves on the floor of the vast Kasei Valles system on Mars. The ridges and grooves are much older and are believed to be the result of a giant, catastrophic flood.
PIA03073:
Flows in Kasei
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.132 MB)     JPEG (442.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows outcrops of light-toned, layered rock exposed in the central peak of Oudemans Crater, near the Labyrinthus Noctis of the western Valles Marineris complex on Mars.
PIA03072:
Oudemans Layers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (9.84 MB)     JPEG (1.832 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater and adjacent terrain that have been exhumed from beneath a wind-eroded material. The sharp, pointy ridges inside and immediately adjacent to the crater are evident.
PIA03071:
Exhuming Landforms
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.324 MB)     JPEG (289.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-October 2005.
PIA03069:
Mars at Ls 306°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (21.17 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows mesas in northeastern Arabia Terra. This heavily-cratered region of Mars has been severely eroded, although very little evidence regarding the erosive processes has been preserved.
PIA03067:
East Arabia Scene
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.292 MB)     JPEG (275.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the broken, platy texture of flow surfaces in the Zephyria region of Mars. Small craters formed on these surfaces, and some of them have boulders in their ejecta.
PIA03066:
Zephyria Platy Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (913 kB)     JPEG (301.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two troughs/depressions formed along the trend of the Sirenum Fossae, a suite of very extensive troughs formed by faults that are radial to the giant Tharsis Bulge on Mars.
PIA03051:
Sirenum Fossae Troughs
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.352 MB)     JPEG (173.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wind streak formed in the lee of an impact crater in western Daedalia Planum on Mars.
PIA03050:
Wind Streak in Daedalia
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.067 MB)     JPEG (580.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows lava flows at the southeast base of the giant volcano, Olympus Mons on Mars. The flat plain in the south-southeast portion of the image is younger than and cuts off the ends of many of the lava flows.
PIA03049:
Martian Lava Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.076 MB)     JPEG (300 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-October 2005.
PIA03045:
Mars at Ls 306°: Syrtis Major
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (22.31 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the landing ellipse, in hopes of spotting the Mars Polar Lander in December 1999, and, perhaps, to provide additional insight as to its fate. The lander was not found here.
PIA03044:
Mars Polar Lander NOT Found
Full Resolution:     TIFF (365.4 kB)     JPEG (40.91 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows streamlined landforms carved by catastrophic floods that occurred in the eastern Cerberus region on Mars, some time in the distant martian past.
PIA03043:
Cerberus Flood Features
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.886 MB)     JPEG (359.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a frost-covered surface in the martian south polar region.
PIA03042:
Defrosting Patterns
Full Resolution:     TIFF (580.8 kB)     JPEG (100.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows rugged terrain in northern Arabia Terra. The circular features are the remains of old meteor impact craters. The martian bedrock has craters of all sizes and states of erosion interbedded with its layered materials.
PIA03038:
Filled/Eroded Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dike exhumed by erosion from beneath the cratered terrain near Auqakuh Vallis in northeastern Arabia Terra on Mars.
PIA03037:
Dike near Auqakuh
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.173 MB)     JPEG (170.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of an old impact crater in the Sinus Sabaeus region of Mars, just south of the large impact basin, Schiaparelli.
PIA03036:
Crater in Sabaeus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.98 MB)     JPEG (241.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-October 2005.
PIA03027:
Mars at Ls 306°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (22.77 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, windblown sand dunes on the floor of Brashear Crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
PIA03022:
Dunes in Brashear
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.481 MB)     JPEG (2.194 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows several overlapping lava flows located on the vast plains east of the volcano, Ascraeus Mons on Mars. Hundreds of lava flows cover the plains from Ascraeus Mons eastward to Kasei Valles.
PIA03021:
Martian Flows
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.077 MB)     JPEG (173.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two circular features in the south polar region of Mars. The circular features are degraded impact craters. The dark, irregular features in each crater are the remnants of a layer of material.
PIA03020:
South Polar Scene
Full Resolution:     TIFF (814.8 kB)     JPEG (300.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cluster of craters in far western Arabia Terra on Mars. The crater cluster is oriented along a line that runs nearly left-right across the scene.
PIA03019:
Secondary Craters
Full Resolution:     TIFF (693.8 kB)     JPEG (186 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an old impact crater in southeastern Arabia Terra on Mars. The crater ejecta blanket is no longer visible and all of the terrain has been covered by a mantle of dust.
PIA03018:
Arabian Crater
Full Resolution:     TIFF (837.7 kB)     JPEG (140.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a chain of collapse pits on the lower south flank of Ascraeus Mons on Mars. Pit chains such as this are the result of collapse along fault lines.
PIA03017:
Volcanic Pit Chain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-October 2005.
PIA03016:
Mars at Ls 306°: Tharsis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark, defrosting spots formed on a polygon-cracked plain in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA03009:
Defrosting Spots
Full Resolution:     TIFF (644 kB)     JPEG (180.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a view of frozen carbon dioxide in the south polar residual cap of Mars. Much of the south polar residual cap exhibits terrain that resembles stacks of sliced Swiss cheese.
PIA03008:
Frozen Frozen CO2
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.035 MB)     JPEG (1.576 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-10-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows springtime defrosting patterns formed in a dune field and surrounding polygon-patterned ground in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA03007:
Defrosting South #2
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.063 MB)     JPEG (351.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows outcrops of south polar layered terrain enhanced by bright patches of carbon dioxide frost.
PIA03006:
Enhanced by Frost
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.636 MB)     JPEG (284.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a large collapse pit (and portions of several smaller pits) in the Tractus Fossae portion of the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA06416:
Collapse Pit
Full Resolution:     TIFF (10.34 MB)     JPEG (2.481 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a gully formed in the wall of a north middle-latitude crater. Similar gullies are common at the middle and polar latitudes of Mars, and might have formed by the action of liquid water.
PIA06413:
Gully in the North
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.968 MB)     JPEG (216.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-September 2005.
PIA06408:
Mars at Ls 288°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (20.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows polygonal patterned ground on a south high-latitude plain on Mars. The outlines of the polygons, like the craters and hills in this region, are enhanced by the presence of bright frost left over from the previous winter.
PIA06376:
High Latitude Polygons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a fuzzy, nearly-circular bright, active dust devil making its way across the rugged terrain of the Loire Vallis system on Mars.
PIA06354:
Loire Dust Devil
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.369 MB)     JPEG (192.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows collapse pits and troughs on the lower northeast flank of the giant martian volcano, Ascraeus Mons on Mars.
PIA06353:
Pits on Ascraeus
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.362 MB)     JPEG (339.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small, springtime dust devil creating a dark streak on the plains of Argyre on Mars. The small, bright dot is the dust devil.
PIA06352:
Devilish Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor from Sept. 2005, shows details among some of the eroded layer outcrops of the martian south polar region. Much of the south polar region of Mars is covered by a thick unit of layered material.
PIA06344:
South Polar Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This picture is a composite from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor of daily global images acquired Sept. 2005, at Ls 288° during a previous Mars year. The picture shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars.
PIA06343:
Mars at Ls 288°: Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows sharp detail of a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large trough cut by erosion into the martian north polar cap and the layered material beneath the ice cap.
PIA04296:
Scarp at Head of Chasma Boreale
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows pits in Mars' south polar cap are generally circular and in some areas visually resemble a stack of thin slices of Swiss cheese.
PIA04295:
Four Mars Years of South Polar Changes Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows spiral dust cloud over Arsia Mons on Mars. White and bluish areas are thin clouds of water ice.
PIA04294:
Repeated Clouds over Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA is considering Eberswalde crater as a possible landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory mission; the spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2012.
PIA04293:
Eberswalde Delta in High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the southern rim of the summit crater, or caldera, of the intermediate-sized martian volcano, Ulysses Patera on Mars.
PIA04292:
Recently-Formed Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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When a boulder rolls down a dusty slope, it can leave behind a trail of depressions known as boulder tracks. This image is from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
PIA04291:
Rolling Stones Make New Boulder Tracks
Full Resolution:     TIFF (7.208 MB)     JPEG (1.359 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a gully on a dune in an unnamed crater in the Hellespontus region of Mars, west of the Hellas Basin.
PIA04290:
New Gullies on Martian Sand Dune
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows temperatures outlining the growth and retreat of the martian northern and southern polar ice caps. The caps grow in winter and are composed of carbon dioxide ice.
PIA04298:
Five Years of Monitoring Mars' Daytime Surface Temperatures (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the daily abundance of dust in the martian atmosphere over a period of three full martian years, from April 1999 through February 2005.
PIA04297:
Three Years of Monitoring Mars' Atmospheric Dust (Animation) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the results of wind action on the floor of the giant martian impact basin, Huygens. The large crater in this image has a wind streak on its lee side.
PIA03005:
Huygens Wind Streak
Full Resolution:     TIFF (3.527 MB)     JPEG (588 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the inverted remains of several channels in a fan-like complex in the Aeolis region of Mars. The inverted channels are flat-topped ridges that trend from southeast to northwest.
PIA03004:
Inverted Channels
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a wind-eroded terrain. The ridges that cut across the scene are classic yardangs, a landform created by wind erosion. These are located in the Eumenides Dorsum region of Mars.
PIA03003:
Wind-Eroded Terrain
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the complex surfaces of some of the light- and intermediate-toned sedimentary rock exposed by erosion in eastern Sinus Meridiani on Mars. A dark feature with a rayed pattern is the product of a meteor impact.
PIA06078:
Meridiani Rocks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a ripple-covered valley floor in the Hyblaeus Fossae region on Mars. Winds blowing up and down the length of the valley have helped to concentrate windblown grains to form these large, megaripples.
PIA06008:
Rippled Valley Floor
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a lonely, light-toned butte composed of sedimentary rock in northern Sinus Meridiani on Mars.
PIA05258:
Lonely Butte
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-September 2005.
PIA05217:
Mars at Ls 288°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a the cloud feature on Mars, as it appeared over three Mars years.
PIA05079:
Celebrating 8 Years at Mars: Repeated Weather Events
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows heavily-cratered lava flows on the slopes of the martian volcano, Ascraeus Mons on Mars. The mountain is a classic shield volcano, similar in many respects to the volcanoes of Hawaii.
PIA04289:
Flows of Ascraeus
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an inverted valley in eastern Arabia Terra on Mars. The relatively flat-topped ridge was once the floor, or a material covering the floor, of an ancient martian valley.
PIA04288:
Inverted Valley
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a view of the martian south polar region, as it appeared on 8 September 2005.
PIA04287:
MOC Imaging Resumes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows outcrops of light-toned, sedimentary rock among darker-toned mesas in Aram Chaos on Mars. Dark, windblown megaripples -- large ripples -- are also present at this location.
PIA04286:
Aram Chaos Rocks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows clouds common in late spring over martian terrain located southwest of the Arsia Mons volcano. Arsia Mons is the dark, oval feature near the limb.
PIA04285:
Tharsis Limb Cloud
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-September 2005.
PIA04284:
Mars at Ls 288°: Tharsis
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil caught in the act of creating a dark streak on the floor of the large, south mid-latitude crater, Mendel, on Mars.
PIA04283:
Caught in the Act
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rocks exposed by erosion in Terby Crater, located on the north rim of the Hellas Basin. Sedimentary rocks are common on Mars.
PIA04259:
Sediments of Terby
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows polygons enhanced by subliming seasonal frost in the martian south polar region. The circular features are degraded meteor impact craters.
PIA04212:
Polygons and Craters
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a patch of frost-covered, dark sand that, at the time the picture was acquired in June 2005, had begun to defrost. The frost is carbon dioxide.
PIA04199:
Defrosting Sand
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an impact crater cut by troughs which formed after the crater formed. The crater and troughs have large windblown ripples on martian floors.
PIA04198:
Cut By Troughs
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater formed in light-toned, layered, sedimentary rocks in Meridiani Planum on Mars. Erosion of sedimentary rock layers around the crater rim has caused an uneven retreat.
PIA04197:
Meridiani Crater
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the south polar region of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04177:
Mars at Ls 269°: South Polar Region
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows frost-covered sand dunes in the martian north polar region.
PIA04173:
Frosty Dunes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a frost-covered slope in the south polar region of Mars. The layered nature of the terrain in the south polar region is evident in a series of irregular, somewhat stair-stepped bands.
PIA04172:
Layered Slope
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered rock outcrops found in eastern Candor Chasma, part of the vast Valles Marineris trough system on Mars.
PIA04171:
East Candor's Rocks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows yardangs, a typical ridge pattern formed by wind erosion, in southern Amazonis on Mars.
PIA04170:
Amazonis Yardangs
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops in the crater, Terby. The crater is located on the north rim of Hellas Basin on Mars.
PIA04167:
Terby's Rocks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the walls and floor of a valley in the western Memnonia region of Mars. The finely-textured ridges and pits found on the valley walls and upland outside of the valley were formed by wind erosion.
PIA04166:
Valley Crossing
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04165:
Mars at Ls 269°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows eroded bedrock among the mountains of western Argyre. Smooth on Mars, dark areas are patches of windblown sand.
PIA04164:
West Argyre
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the floor of a crater in western Arabia Terra. Martian sediment in two basic forms: (1) light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops and (2) dark, windblown sand dunes.
PIA04163:
Sediments of Arabia
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows varied springtime patterns formed in defrosting, seasonal carbon dioxide frost in the south polar region of Mars. Polygonal forms such as these might indicate the presence of ice below the surface.
PIA04162:
The Defrosting South
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered material exposed by erosion in the south polar region of Mars. At the time the image was acquired, the surface was covered with seasonal carbon dioxide frost.
PIA04161:
South Polar Layers
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark-outlined polygons on a frost-covered surface in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA04151:
Polar Polygons
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows kidney bean-shaped pits, and other pits, formed by erosion in a landscape of frozen carbon dioxide in the martian south polar residual cap.
PIA04150:
Polar Cap Pits
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-August 2005.
PIA04149:
Mars at Ls 269°: Syrtis Major
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows rugged terrain in the Nestus Valles portion of northern Memnonia on Mars. Wind erosion has scoured the landscape. Dust mantles the scene.
PIA04148:
Rugged Terrain
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a circular depression and a suite of eroding mesas of carbon dioxide. These features occur in the south polar residual cap of Mars.
PIA04147:
South Polar Depression
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies cut into layered rock and debris on the wall of a south middle-latitude crater on Mars.
PIA04146:
Martian Gullies
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