Syrtis Major Planum Windstreaks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows windstreaks located in Syrtis Major Planum. These streaks are formed by the wind interaction with positive topographic features (like craters), with the 'tail' located down wind of the crater. The streaks in this image indicate the prevailing wind was from the upper right to the lower left side of the image (northeast to southwest).

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Context

Latitude: 3.32166

Longitude: 71.8766

Orbit Number: 100655

Captured: 2024-08-23 06:22

Posted to Web: Mon, 2025-02-10

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 256 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3792 pixels (269 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.071154 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0720079 km/pixel

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