Small Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

As the wind is the only active geologic process on Mars today, sand and dust continue to be moved around the surface. Most craters host a sand dune or two, like this unnamed crater in Tyrrhena Terra.

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Context

Image ID:

V41692002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -16.5793

Longitude: 96.5938

Orbit Number: 41692

Captured: 2011-05-09 04:33

Posted to Web: Mon, 2011-06-06

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017433 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.01756 km/pixel

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