Wind Effects

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This region of Mars has been eroded by the wind. Linear hills called yardangs indicate the wind direction, which varies in this area of Medusae Fossae.

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Context

Image ID: 
V36984002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-3.8357
199.426
36984
2010-04-16 12:46
Tue, 2010-06-15
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (64 km)
0.01759 km/pixel
0.017718 km/pixel

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