Yardangs

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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This VIS image shows wind erosion that has formed yardangs. These parallel sets of ridges and valley are formed by sandblasing poorly consolidated surface materials.

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Context

Latitude: -1.3125

Longitude: 206.856

Orbit Number: 49915

Captured: 2013-03-16 00:24

Posted to Web: Tue, 2013-05-28

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017595 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017723 km/pixel

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