Wind Action

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Wind erosion is an active process on Mars today. The Medusa Fossae region has undergone extreme amounts of wind erosion, revealing an older surface below the easily eroded surface material.

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Context

Image ID:

V28224029 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 6.9329

Longitude: 203.613

Orbit Number: 28224

Captured: 2008-04-24 23:51

Posted to Web: Tue, 2008-06-03

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017869 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017999 km/pixel

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