Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Orbiter Camera





Illustrations Regarding Early Mars Sedimentary Rocks
from the NASA/JPL Press Conference, December 4, 2000

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-265, 4 December 2000

 

Note: Originally it was planned that there would be a "Space Science Update" televised from NASA Heaquarters in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2000, to present Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) results regarding sedimentary rocks on Mars. That media event never transpired because Science lifted its usual embargo on December 4, 2000, and a hasty press conference at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was put together to give the MGS MOC group a chance to describe their work. The following pictures were prepared for the December 7, 2000, Space Science Update. Not all of these were shown at the press conference that actually took place on December 4th. Pictures A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, L, and several from O and P were used at the JPL Press Conference.



(A) Layers in W. Candor Chasma

Subframe of MOC image FHA-01278
(B) Layers in Crater at 8°N, 7°W

Subframe of MOC image M14-01647
(C) Layers in Holden Crater

Subframe of MOC image M03-02733
(D) Layered and Massive Units, Candor Mensa

Subframe of MOC image M10-02361
(E) Oblique view of Gale Crater Mound

MOC wide angle and MGS laser altimetry
(F) Layered Unit in Gale Crater Mound

Subframe of M03-01521
(G) Unconformity in Gale Crater Mound

Subframe of M03-01521
(H) Massive Unit in Gale Crater Mound

Subframe of M03-01521
(I) Locations of Layer Outcrops

Simple Cylindrical Projection Mars Map
(J) Outcrops in Valles Marineris Walls

Subframes MOC M17-00467 & M17-00468
(K) Layered Rocks in Grand Canyon

1980 Photo by M. C. Malin
(L) Grand Canyon and Gale Geologic Sections

MSSS Artwork
(M) Ganges Chasma Mound

Mariner 9 and MOC images
(N) Oblique view at 8°N, 7°W

Based upon MOC image MOC M18-01349
(O) Sequence of Layer Formation & Erosion

MSSS Artwork
(P) Alternative Formation Processes

MSSS Artwork



Images Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems


Malin Space Science Systems 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.

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