Wind Erosion

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Constant sand-blasting by the winds on Mars have eroded and sculpted the surface in the equatorial region around Medusae Fossae.

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Image ID:

Latitude: -3.09884

Longitude: 204.398

Orbit Number: 39804

Captured: 2010-12-04 17:34

Posted to Web: Fri, 2011-01-21

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017664 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017792 km/pixel

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