Channeled Winds

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This crater has a small channel on the side of the rim. At the end of the channel, on the crater floor, you can see the effect of wind coming down the channel. The wind has swept the surface clean, while sand and dust remain surrounding the wind swept area.

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Context

Image ID:

V15901002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -10.034

Longitude: 37.189

Orbit Number: 15901

Captured: 2005-07-15 07:02

Posted to Web: Mon, 2005-10-10

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01753 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017658 km/pixel

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