Mars Global Surveyor Images: July 7-13, 2005

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
July 7-13, 2005

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

o East Tharsis Pit Chain (Released 07 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/07

o Ganges Chasma Sands (Released 08 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/08

o Rugged Olympus Mons (Released 09 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/09

o Melas Layers (Released 10 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/10

o Troughs in Tharsis (Released 11 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/11

o Mars at Ls 249 Degrees (Released 12 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/12

o The Changing South Polar Cap of Mars: 1999-2005 (Released 13 July
2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/13


All of the Mars Global Surveyor images are archived he

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.

WOW! How many ancient shorelines can you
see in this picture?


Melas Layers (Released 10 July 2005)
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2005/07/10




Jonathan

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Melas Chasma is about where the hypothetical mega-outflow occurred, if
you can believe such an absurd scenario.

To my mind, this photo is further evidence of the magmaphreatic
cascade, which eventually burned off a mostly-frozen Martian Sea.