Swiss Cheese Crater
November 23, 2012
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a circular depression and a suite of eroding mesas of carbon dioxide. These features occur in the south polar residual cap of Mars. The eroding carbon dioxide creates landforms reminiscent of "Swiss cheese". The circular feature might indicate the location of a filled, buried impact crater. MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1183, 14 August 2005
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Topics:
Environment, Space technology, Spaceflight, Spacecraft, Mars Orbiter Camera, Mare Australe quadrangle, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Global Surveyor, Climate of Mars, Malin Space Science Systems, Astronomy on Mars, Mars
