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Sedimentary Rock Near Coprates

July 17, 2003
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops exposed on the floor of a trough that parallels Coprates Chasma in the Valles Marineris system on Mars.

MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-420, 13 July 2003

This mosaic of two Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) narrow angle camera images, one from 2001, the other from 2003, shows light-toned, layered, sedimentary rock outcrops exposed on the floor of a trough that parallels Coprates Chasma in the Valles Marineris system. Layered rocks form the pages from which the history of a place can be read. It may be many years before the story is read, but or now at least we know where one of the books of martian history is found. This picture is located near 15.2°S, 60.1°W. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.

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