When Mars Global Surveyor reaches its final mapping orbit in March 1999, the spacecraft's camera will be used to make daily global maps of Martian clouds and weather systems. A new image taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft of Valles Marineris is now available on the MGS website. More than 4,000 km in length, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon system in the solar system. Image caption is appended below. Picture is a mosaic of Viking Orbiter images from the U.S. Geological Survey.
North is up.
Small white boxes indicate the approximate locations of each of the MOC images shown below. Picture is a mosaic of Viking Orbiter images from the U.S. Geological Survey. North is up. North is up, illumination is from the left. Layers exposed near the middle of western Candor Chasma.