Despite its large size, the slopes are only a few degrees, making this a broad shield volcano. When the picture was taken, Mars Global Surveyor was travelling from left to right. The scene in the top half of the image is cloudy. This color picture was made using MOC red wide angle image 26301 and blue wide angle image 26302. The green channel was synthesized by averaging the red and blue bands.
North is to the left, east is up.
The picture is available here in two sizes, the first is a 855 KByte JPEG image, the second is a 175 KByte JPEG image. This picture was the subject of an an earlier MGS MOC release on October 12, 1998. This MOC image is made available in order to share with the public the excitement of new discoveries being made via the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. Release of this image does not constitute a release of scientific data. The image and its caption should not be referenced in the scientific literature.