Dark Slope Streaks

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows part of the rim of an unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea. Numerous dark streaks are visible. One theory of how the streaks form suggests that a rock or block of material rolls down the slope, removing or disturbing the surface dust and exposing the darker rock underneath.

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Context

Image ID: 
V63059011 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
14.1927
25.6053
63059
2016-03-02 01:38
Mon, 2016-05-16
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (66 km)
0.018309 km/pixel
0.0184621 km/pixel

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