Dark Slope Streaks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Dark streaks are visible on the slopes of hills and crater rims in Amazonis Planitia. It is thought that the removal of dust by downslope movement reveals the darker rocks beneath.

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Context

Image ID:

V60745003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 13.62

Longitude: 191.678

Orbit Number: 60745

Captured: 2015-08-24 11:59

Posted to Web: Tue, 2015-10-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036873 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0373464 km/pixel

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