Great Zoom into Distributary Fan, Mars
This is a Great Zoom into the so-called Distributary Fan on Mars. It is located just northeast of Holden Crater. As seen from Martian orbit by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) flying on the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, this dramatic visualization shows us where liquid water likely flowed across the Martian surface sometime in the planet's past.
Great zoom into distributary fan on Mars
View #1 of Mars cresent
View #2 of Mars cresent
View #1 of Mars with MOC wide angle inset
View #2 of Mars with MOC wide angle inset
View #1 of MOC wide angle with narrow angle inset
View #2 of MOC wide angle with narrow angle inset
MOC narrow angle distributary fan
MOC narrow angle distributary fan close up #1
MOC narrow angle distributary fan close up #2
MOC narrow angle distributary fan close up #3
MOC narrow angle distributary fan close up #4
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, and NASA/JPL/MSSS (http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2003/11/13/)
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Marte Newcombe (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- James Garvin (NASA/HQ)
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Writer
- Michael Starobin (HTSI)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, April 1, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
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[MGS: MOC]
ID: 58 -
True Color [Viking: Images]
ID: 531
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