Wind Texture

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

On Earth these wind-derived features are called 'blowouts', where the force of the wind has carved out a crescent shaped depression in soft, uncemented material like glacial loess. The features on Mars are much larger than the ones on Earth.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V40403001 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-0.932672
204.318
40403
2011-01-23 01:15
Wed, 2011-03-23
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (64 km)
0.017639 km/pixel
0.017767 km/pixel

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