Dust Devil Tracks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows dust devil tracks in Utopia Planitia. The tracks occur where dust devils have scoured the fine materials off the underlying surface. In some cases dust devils can create arced tracks. The ones in this image are mostly linear.

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Context

Image ID:

V72335020 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 51.4292

Longitude: 112.722

Orbit Number: 72335

Captured: 2018-04-05 06:20

Posted to Web: Mon, 2018-07-02

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019488 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0196659 km/pixel

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