Everywhere Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Small bright dunes are present in almost every depression and channel bottom on Mars. Just at the limit of THEMIS resolution, these dunes look like tank treads rolling up channel floors. The dunes here are in the depressions of Melas Fossae.

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Context

Image ID:

V26375005 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -28.3279

Longitude: 290.591

Orbit Number: 26375

Captured: 2007-11-24 16:03

Posted to Web: Tue, 2008-03-04

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017192 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017318 km/pixel

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