Polar Winds

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

When winds that have swept across the north polar ice encounter a trough in the ice the laminar flow slows at the base of the trough, producing a turbulent wind regime that is easily recognized in the clouds formed in the trough.

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Context

Image ID: 
V28867003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
86.8442
91.508
28867
2008-06-16 22:07
Thu, 2008-07-31
VIS
1024 pixels (20 km)
3648 pixels (72 km)
0.019917 km/pixel
0.020062 km/pixel

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