[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Image of the Week - November 20, 2006

[Ron Baalke]

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR 
Image of the Week
November 20, 2006

The following new image taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft is now available:

o Sharp View of Gullies in Southern Winter (Released 20 November 2006)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/11/20

Image Caption:

Crisp details in a suite of mid-latitude gullies on a crater wall are 
captured in this Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) 
view obtained in southern winter on 12 October 2006. During southern 
winter, shadows are more pronounced and the atmosphere is typically 
quite clear. These gullies, which may have formed in relatively 
recent martian history by erosion caused by flowing, liquid water, 
are located in a crater on the east rim of Newton Crater near 40.4S, 
155.3W. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the upper left. The 
picture covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide; the crater rim is 
on the right side of the image, the crater floor is on the left. 
North is toward the top/upper left. 

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All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived here:

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/index.html

Mars Global Surveyor was launched in November 1996 and has been
in Mars orbit since September 1997.   It began its primary
mapping mission on March 8, 1999.  Mars Global Surveyor is the 
first mission in a long-term program of Mars exploration known as 
the Mars Surveyor Program that is managed by JPL for NASA's Office
of Space Science, Washington, DC.  Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS)
and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC
using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission. MSSS operates
the camera from its facilities in San Diego, CA. The Jet Propulsion
Laboratory's Mars Surveyor Operations Project operates the Mars Global
Surveyor spacecraft with its industrial partner, Lockheed Martin
Astronautics, from facilities in Pasadena, CA and Denver, CO.