Dark Slope Streaks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows dark slope streaks on several small mesas in Amazonis Planitia. The streaks mark locations where there has been down slope movement of material, which reduce the dust cover and reveal the darker rock surface.

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Context

Image ID:

V61918008 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 14.3331

Longitude: 190.324

Orbit Number: 61918

Captured: 2015-11-29 02:18

Posted to Web: Mon, 2016-02-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036674 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0367916 km/pixel

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