Dunes in Becquerel Crater

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Dark dunes on the floor of an interior crater in Becquerel apparently supply the sand responsible for the erosion of the remarkable, layered deposit to the south.

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Context

Image ID:

V03820009 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 21.9657

Longitude: 351.661

Orbit Number: 3820

Captured: 2002-10-24 18:55

Posted to Web: Tue, 2002-11-12

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (67 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01841 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018544 km/pixel

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