Small Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

With the extensive amount of dust and sandy materials on Mars, dunes are a pervasive feature. Many dunes are small, like the ones in this VIS image. The bright "squiggles" in this image are small dunes. The large hill is actually part of a long, ridge system called Oenotria Scapuli.

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Context

Latitude: -5.89205

Longitude: 68.8747

Orbit Number: 42604

Captured: 2011-07-23 06:03

Posted to Web: Tue, 2011-09-06

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017897 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018377 km/pixel

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