Dust Devil Tracks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows dust devil tracks on the plains of Aonia Terra. As the dust devil moves across the surface it scours the fine dust particles, revealing the darker rock surface below.

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Context

Image ID:

V66800003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -65.2605

Longitude: 239.338

Orbit Number: 66800

Captured: 2017-01-04 04:52

Posted to Web: Mon, 2017-02-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.033752 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.033901 km/pixel

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