Detail View: NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection: Schiaparelli's Sedimentary Rocks
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Title:
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Schiaparelli's Sedimentary Rocks
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Original Caption Released with Image:
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9 October 2004 Schiaparelli Basin is a large, 470 kilometer (~292 miles) impact crater located east of Sinus Meridiani. The basin might once have been the site of a large lake--that is, if the sedimentary rocks exposed on its northwestern floor were deposited in water. This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a 1.5 meter per pixel (5 ft per pixel) view of some of the light-toned, finely-bedded sedimentary rocks in northwestern Schiaparelli. The image is located near 1.0°S, 346.0°W, and covers an area about 3 km (1.9 mi) wide. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.
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Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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Produced By:
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Malin Space Science Systems
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Mission:
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Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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Spacecraft:
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Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter
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Target Name:
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Mars
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Is a satellite of:
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Sol (our sun)
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Instrument:
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Mars Orbiter Camera
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Product Size:
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2048 samples x 3072 lines
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Producer ID:
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MOC2-874
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facet_what:
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Crater
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facet_where:
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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facet_when:
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October 2004
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facet_when_year:
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2004
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Image #:
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PIA06929
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UID:
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SPD-PHOTJ-PIA06929
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original url:
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http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06929
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