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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.061 MB)     JPEG (458.7 kB)
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.023 MB)     JPEG (255.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.985 MB)     JPEG (208.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.246 MB)     JPEG (102.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.55 MB)     JPEG (205.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (36.86 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.587 MB)     JPEG (336.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.986 MB)     JPEG (563.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.325 MB)     JPEG (197.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.513 MB)     JPEG (210.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.639 MB)     JPEG (241.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.966 MB)     JPEG (754.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (33.62 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (65.75 MB)     JPEG (2.126 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.583 MB)     JPEG (307.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.477 MB)     JPEG (320.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.054 MB)     JPEG (297.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.722 MB)     JPEG (930.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.858 MB)     JPEG (250.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (667.5 kB)     JPEG (101.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (35.22 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.418 MB)     JPEG (451.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.657 MB)     JPEG (466.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.56 MB)     JPEG (1.151 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.567 MB)     JPEG (418.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.723 MB)     JPEG (618.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.698 MB)     JPEG (166.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-25 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-March 2006.
PIA08101:
Mars at Ls 39°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (33.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.519 MB)     JPEG (620.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.561 MB)     JPEG (373.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (716 kB)     JPEG (174.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-21 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.98 MB)     JPEG (487.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.842 MB)     JPEG (690.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
 1024x2912x1
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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.985 MB)     JPEG (473.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-18 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 in mid-April 2006.
PIA08080:
Mars at Ls 39°: Syrtis Major
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (39.44 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.035 MB)     JPEG (739.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.162 MB)     JPEG (194.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.974 MB)     JPEG (249.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (5.724 MB)     JPEG (551.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 CTX
Mars Orbiter Camera
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First Context Camera Image of Mars
PIA08068:
First Context Camera Image of Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (26.44 MB)     JPEG (1.394 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 MARCI
Mars Orbiter Camer
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View of Argyre Basin from Test of Mars Color Image
PIA08067:
View of Argyre Basin from Test of Mars Color Image
Full Resolution:     TIFF (4.472 MB)     JPEG (60.47 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-13 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
 836x1969x1
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows ridges exposed by erosion in the Aeolis region of Mars. The curved and crisscrossing ridges were once channels in a fan of sediment deposited in the Aeolis lowlands.
PIA08070:
Inverted Channels
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.648 MB)     JPEG (279.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dunes covered and delineated by seasonal frost in the north polar region of Mars.
PIA08069:
Frosty Dunes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.451 MB)     JPEG (264.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-11 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 in mid-April 2006.
PIA08066:
Mars at Ls 39°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (39.51 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil traveling across a plain west-southwest of Schiaparelli Crater, in far eastern Sinus Meridiani. A dust devil is casting a shadow toward the northeast, just south of an egg-shaped crater.
PIA08058:
Plains Traveler
Full Resolution:     TIFF (807.4 kB)     JPEG (169.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
 836x2734x1
This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an eroded stack of layered material in a crater of the south polar region of Mars.
PIA08057:
Polar Layers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.288 MB)     JPEG (490.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-08 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 a field of dark sand dunes superposed on the light-toned floor of a crater in eastern Tyrrhena Terra.
PIA08056:
Tyrrhena Dunes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.492 MB)     JPEG (322.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows south polar mesas composed largely of solid carbon dioxide separated by generally circular depressions.
PIA08055:
Polar Summer
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.421 MB)     JPEG (883 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the edge of a trough, which is part of a large pit crater complex in Noachis Terra on Mars. This type of trough forms through the collapse of surface materials into the subsurface, beginning as individual pit craters.
PIA08045:
The Edge
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.559 MB)     JPEG (253.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the margin of a lava flow on a plain northwest of Jovis Tholus, a volcanic construct located in the Tharsis region of Mars.
PIA08044:
Addition and Subtraction
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.28 MB)     JPEG (349.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-04 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-April 2006.
PIA08032:
Mars at Ls 39°: Tharsis
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (37.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the margin of a lava flow on a cratered plain in the Athabasca Vallis region of Mars. Remarkably, the cratered plain in this scene is essentially free of bright, windblown ripples.
PIA08031:
Ripple Trap
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.624 MB)     JPEG (571.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-02 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 in the Promethei Terra region. The ejecta from an impact crater is usually rocky.
PIA08029:
Promethei Pedestal
Full Resolution:     TIFF (654.1 kB)     JPEG (95.76 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows two impact craters of nearly equal size, plus their associated wind streaks. These occur in far eastern Chryse Planitia.
PIA08028:
Craters and Streaks
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.415 MB)     JPEG (163.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a layered, light-toned mesa among other layered materials exposed in a mound that covers much of the floor of Spallanzani Crater.
PIA08027:
Spallanzani Layers
Full Resolution:     TIFF (745.6 kB)     JPEG (57.91 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a valley which has become partially-filled with material. It is located west of Hellas Planitia on Mars. The valley splits to form a 'V.'
PIA08025:
Partially-Filled Valley
Full Resolution:     TIFF (823.6 kB)     JPEG (130.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the northern wall complex of a crater in northwest Terra Sirenum on Mars. Several spectacular gully networks extend from a variety of elevations on the wall and run downslope toward the crater.
PIA08020:
Terra Sirenum Gullies
Full Resolution:     TIFF (6.872 MB)     JPEG (747.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-28 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-March 2006.
PIA08019:
Mars at Ls 25°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
Full Resolution:     TIFF (411.8 kB)     JPEG (34.23 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dust plumes created by gusting winds on a plain southwest of Argyre Planitia.
PIA08018:
Raising Dust
Full Resolution:     TIFF (662.8 kB)     JPEG (116.1 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-26 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 the stair-stepped, north wall of a crater in Arabia Terra.
PIA08017:
Arabia Bridal Veils
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.673 MB)     JPEG (204.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
 1024x1980x1
This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a spectacular summertime view of a portion of the south polar residual cap.
PIA08016:
South Polarscape
Full Resolution:     TIFF (2.03 MB)     JPEG (502.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a relatively fresh crater with dark, rayed ejecta on an upland plain above one of the many depressions in the eastern Labyrinthus Noctis region.
PIA08015:
Upland Impact
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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.
PIA08009:
Tyrrhena Tongue
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark sand dunes and relatively small, light-toned, windblown ripples on the floor of a crater in central Noachis Terra.
PIA08008:
Noachis Dunes
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars.
PIA02041:
Mars at Ls 25°: Syrtis Major
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor captured the platy flow surfaces in the Marte Vallis region of Mars on March 20, 2006.
PIA02010:
Marte Vallis Textures
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a partially-buried crater in the north polar region of Mars. A circular feature is surrounded and partly overlain by some of the many, many sand dunes in the area.
PIA02009:
Northern Impact
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of Mars' south polar residual cap. The darkened edges of the pits and mesas are evidence of the removal, by sublimation, of frozen carbon dioxide during the martian summer.
PIA02990:
South Polar Autumn
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows alternating ridges and troughs exposed by erosion of material interpreted to be sedimentary rock in the Aeolis region of Mars.
PIA02968:
Up and Down
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil producing a track among dozens of other, preexisting streaks on a dusty, south middle-latitude plain on Mars.
PIA02920:
Martian Streaker
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two suites of gullies within a single impact crater in the Terra Cimmeria region of Mars. Gully erosion has cut into the layered rock exposed on the crater wall.
PIA02919:
Bi-level Gullies
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-March 2006.
PIA02918:
Mars at Ls 25°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a trough in the Sirenum Fossae region on Mars. On the floor and walls of the trough, large, truck- to house-sized, boulders are observed at rest.
PIA02915:
Tracking Boulders
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a mid-summer view of layered terrain in the south polar region of Mars.
PIA02914:
Repetition
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows some typical relations between impact craters and light-toned, layered rock on Mars. The larger circular feature marks the location of a filled, buried crater on intermountain terrain north of Hellas Planitia.
PIA02896:
Craters and Layers
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of textures observed on a south middle-latitude plain east-southeast of Hellas Planitia. Dark streaks left by passing dust devils are practically ubiquitous across the scene.
PIA02888:
Remains
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of textures observed on a south middle-latitude plain east-southeast of Hellas Planitia. Dark streaks left by passing dust devils are practically ubiquitous across the scene.
PIA02887:
Martian Graffiti
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of a pit chain on the lower, northern flank of the giant martian volcano, Arsia Mons.
PIA02874:
The Pits
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Tharsis face of Mars in mid-March 2006.
PIA02697:
Mars at Ls 25°: Tharsis
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a frosty, springtime scene in the north polar region of Mars. The area is blanketed by a maze of sand dunes; their appearance is enhanced by subliming, seasonal carbon dioxide frost.
PIA02693:
Dune-tastic
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dark-toned, cratered plain in southwest Utopia Planitiaon Mars. Large, light-toned, windblown ripples reside on the floors of many of the depressions in the scene, including a long, linear, trough.
PIA02692:
Utopia Plain
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a landscape in the eastern Cerberus region on Mars scoured by catastrophic floods, and later cut by a deep, dark-walled trough. The trough is radial to the Elysium volcanic region, and formed along faults in the bedrock.
PIA02691:
East Cerberus
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows two barchan dunes in the north polar region of Mars. The orientation of the dunes, with the steep faces pointed toward the southeast, indicates that the winds responsible for their formation blew from the northwest.
PIA02681:
Lonely Barchans
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an impact crater located in Terra Sabaea on Mars. South of the impact crater is a second, more subdued circular feature which is probably an ancient impact crater that was buried and only partially exhumed.
PIA02680:
Up Close and Personal
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a layered mound, buried under a thin coating of material hard enough to have been cut by shallow fractures, on the floor of the giant Argyre Basin.
PIA02613:
Argyre Bull's-Eye
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Elysium/Mare Cimmerium face of Mars in mid-February 2006.
PIA02612:
Mars at Ls 12°: Elysium/Mare Cimmerium
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered buttes, knobs, and other landforms exposed by erosion in the Aeolis region of Mars.
PIA02296:
Aeolis Landforms
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies formed in the wall of a depression located on the floor of Rabe Crater west of the giant impact basin, Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA02295:
Gullied Depression
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor image shows the remains of a once more laterally extensive layer overlying undulating terrain very near the south polar residual cap on Mars.
PIA02262:
South Polar Remnants
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark dunes superposed on the rippled floor of Proctor Crater in Noachis Terra. Winds blowing predominantly from east (right) to west (left) were responsible for the formation of these dunes on Mars.
PIA02261:
Wayward Travelers
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an unusally-shaped (not circular) impact crater in the Elysium region of Mars. A dark-toned lava flow surface is seen in the southern (lower) portion of the image.
PIA02199:
Kidney-Shaped Impact
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a transition from one of the many layered troughs in the north polar region of Mars to the relatively homogeneous-looking upper surface of the polar cap.
PIA02198:
Smooth Transition
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Syrtis Major face of Mars in mid-February 2006.
PIA02195:
Mars at Ls 12°: Syrtis Major
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered, sedimentary rock exposures in the Sinus Meridiani region.
PIA02194:
Meridiani Materials
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark streaks on a plain south of the giant impact basin, Hellas Planitia. The streaks map the routes traveled by dozens of individual southern spring and early summer dust devils.
PIA02193:
Devil-Streaked Plain
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a group of rounded hills surrounded by a vast, cratered plain in northeastern Isidis Planitia.
PIA02192:
Isidis Landforms
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a surface in Isidis Planitia, littered with degraded impact craters. Windblown ripples of various sizes and shapes are prevalent with wave-like patterns on the floors of some of the larger impact craters.
PIA02184:
Isidis Plains
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a portion of the south polar residual cap where the effects of sublimation are apparent. Over extended periods of time, sublimation eats away at the smoother appearing material.
PIA02183:
A Matter of Time
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars in mid-February 2006.
PIA02181:
Mars at Ls 12°: Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum
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