Wind Erosion

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows the complexity of wind erosion on Mars. The erosion of the hills and the gouge-like pits indicate two, if not three wind directions that all altered the surface.

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Context

Image ID:

V45107014 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 11.0228

Longitude: 219.858

Orbit Number: 45107

Captured: 2012-02-14 09:04

Posted to Web: Mon, 2012-03-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017975 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018106 km/pixel

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