Wind Power

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The power of the wind to reshape the surface is readily exposed in the equatorial region of mars south and east of Olympus Mons. The materials here have been sculpted and resculpted by thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of years of exposure to the wind.

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Context

Image ID:

V26027010 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 8.2056

Longitude: 226.134

Orbit Number: 26027

Captured: 2007-10-27 02:08

Posted to Web: Fri, 2008-01-04

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017936 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018066 km/pixel

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