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Toe of Ganges Chasma Landslide ( 8.0 S, 44.4W)

Oct. 26, 2001
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows shear striations, dark dunes banked up against the toe of the slide and over-riding light-toned ripples and boulders on the toe of Ganges Chasma on Mars.

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows shear striations, dark dunes banked up against the toe of the slide and over-riding light-toned ripples and boulders on surface of slide. These features can be used to determine quantitative aspects of surface processes.

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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