Fractures & Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Many of the fractures of Nectaris Fossae are filled with small bright dunes. At this resolution the dunes often look like tractor tread marks running along the bottom of the fractures.

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Context

Image ID:

V24016003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -27.1666

Longitude: 301.578

Orbit Number: 24016

Captured: 2007-05-14 10:33

Posted to Web: Tue, 2007-06-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017389 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017515 km/pixel

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