- Original Caption Released with Image:
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27 June 2004
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera
(MOC) image shows some of the layered, sedimentary rock outcrops that
occur in a crater located at 8°N, 7°W, in western Arabia Terra. Dark
layers and dark sand have enhanced the contrast of this scene. In the
upper half of the image, one can see numerous lines that off-set the
layers. These lines are faults along which the rocks have broken and
moved. The regularity of layer thickness and erosional expression are
taken as evidence that the crater in which these rocks occur might once
have been a lake. The image covers an area about 1.9 km (1.2 mi) wide.
Sunlight illuminates the scene from the lower left.
- Image Credit:
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NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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