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Small Martian Mesa

June 12, 2003
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small mesa surrounded by a plain of dust-mantled dunes and ripples on Mars. Large, house-sized boulders have tumbled down the mesa slopes.

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-381, 4 June 2003

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image was acquired during the first week of June 2003. It shows a small mesa surrounded by a plain of dust-mantled dunes and ripples near 5.9°S, 202.8°W. Large, house-sized boulders have tumbled down the mesa slopes. This one of the highest resolution images from Mars, each pixel covers an area of 1.5 meters (5 feet) across. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.

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