Dust Devil Tracks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The faint dark lines located at the top of this VIS image are caused by dust devils. As the dust devil travels along the surface it scours away the loose surface dust, revealing the darker surface beneath. The linear depression in the center of the image is called Oceanidum Fossa - a single graben. These dust devil tracks are located in southern Noachis Terra, southeast of Argyre Planitia.

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Context

Latitude: -62.4497

Longitude: 331.961

Orbit Number: 99823

Captured: 2024-06-15 16:38

Posted to Web: Fri, 2024-08-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.03421 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0345617 km/pixel

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