[meteorite-list] Mars Global Surveyor Image of the Week - November 27, 2006

[Ron Baalke]

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR 
Image of the Week
November 27, 2006

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

o Dust-Mantled Olympus Mons Flows (Released 27 November 2006)
  http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2006/11/27

Image Caption:

Dust-covered lava flows on the lowermost south flank of Olympus 
Mons are captured in this 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) wide Mars 
Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) view acquired 
during northern summer on 12 October 2006. One leveed lava 
channel just south (below) the center left of of the image 
disappears into a thick, pitted and cratered dust mantle. 
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left/upper left. 
The image is located near 13.8N, 134.1W. North is toward 
the top/upper right. 

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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.