Wind Erosion

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows the surface between Aeolis Planum and Zephyria Planum in Elysium Planitia. Long term winds have eroded the surface in this region. Ridge features align with wind direction. In this image the major wind direction is north northwest/south southeast.

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Context

Latitude: -3.95786

Longitude: 149.923

Orbit Number: 96566

Captured: 2023-09-21 13:03

Posted to Web: Wed, 2024-03-20

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.035499 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.036091 km/pixel

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