Dual Winds

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This infrared image shows part of Meridiani Planum. At the top of the image are small, bright windstreaks that form chevrons. The chevron pattern indicates that winds from two different directions formed the streaks.

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Context

Image ID:

I23888013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -0.2164

Longitude: 8.8233

Orbit Number: 23888

Captured: 2007-05-03 23:26

Posted to Web: Wed, 2007-06-13

Instrument: IR

Image Width: 320 pixels (31 km)

Image Height: 3600 pixels (361 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.100389 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.099285 km/pixel

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