Wind Erosion

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Any place that wind blows over poorly consolidated material erosion will occur. This image shows erosion and the removal of material in a region just southeast of Apollineris Patera. The material may be volcanic ash from the nearby patera.

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Context

Latitude: -11.4277

Longitude: 178.927

Orbit Number: 24532

Captured: 2007-06-25 22:04

Posted to Web: Fri, 2007-08-17

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (63 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017373 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017499 km/pixel

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