Planets and Moons  ID: 2880

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.

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Animator
James Garvin (NASA/HQ): Scientist
Michael Starobin (HTSI): Writer
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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Missions:
Mars Global Surveyor - MGS
Viking

Data Used:
MGS/MOC
Narrow Angle: 2003/11
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This item is part of these series:
Great Zooms
Earth-Mars Comparisons

Keywords:
SVS >> Mars
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Mars >> Topography
SVS >> Solar System >> Planets >> Mars >> Distributary Fan
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons