Wind and Rock

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The ejecta materials of this crater are more resistant to erosion than the surrounding materials. The wind has eroded pits and other features around the crater, but the crater has become a topographic high, due to the rock created in the impact event.

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Context

Image ID:

V40091001 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -1.02209

Longitude: 205.031

Orbit Number: 40091

Captured: 2010-12-28 08:42

Posted to Web: Thu, 2011-02-17

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017699 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017828 km/pixel

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