- Original Caption Released with Image:
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30 January 2004
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera
(MOC) image shows alternating light- and dark-toned bands--layers of
sedimentary rock exposed by erosion in Becquerel Crater. Becquerel is
located in western Arabia Terra near 4.1°N, 111.5°W, and might have once
been the site of a lake. A few straight, narrow fault lines can be seen
in the image; they cut the rock in trends that run from upper right
toward lower left (northeast-southwest). This picture covers an area
about 1.5 km (0.9 mi) wide and is illuminated by sunlight from the left.
- Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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