Wind Texture

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

On Earth these wind-derived features are called 'blowouts', where the force of the wind has carved out a crescent shaped depression in soft, uncemented material like glacial loess. The features on Mars are much larger than the ones on Earth.

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Context

Latitude: -0.932672

Longitude: 204.318

Orbit Number: 40403

Captured: 2011-01-23 01:15

Posted to Web: Wed, 2011-03-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017639 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017767 km/pixel

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