Wind Etching

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image crosses the boundary between Elysium Planitia (top) and Terra Cimmeria (bottom). This region of Elysium Planitia has been heavily eroded by winds scouring poor cemented surface materials over thousands of years.

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Context

Image ID:

V95056003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -7.8036

Longitude: 152.443

Orbit Number: 95056

Captured: 2023-05-20 05:05

Posted to Web: Fri, 2023-12-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (269 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.071176 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0721266 km/pixel

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