Dark Slope Streak

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Dark slope streaks, like the ones in this unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea, are believed to be formed when surface dust is displaced and the darker rock below is exposed. Rocks falling due to gravity likely formed these streaks.

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Context

Image ID: 
V36040020 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
15.8886
45.7188
36040
2010-01-28 21:01
Thu, 2010-03-25
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (65 km)
0.018066 km/pixel
0.018197 km/pixel

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