Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows an area where the wind is removing and sculpting the surface. The majority of the surface material in this region is poorly cemented and easy to erode. The knobs and hills represent areas of more resistant material. The wind has less effect on the resistant material and erodes the material around it, leaving a positive topographic feature. In this image an impact cratering event has created a region of the crater and surroundings that is resistant. With time the crater has ended up as a knob, revealing just how much material the wind has been able to erode since the crater formed.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V26428001 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-1.4121
205.35
26428
2007-11-29 00:39
Mon, 2008-03-10
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (64 km)
0.017634 km/pixel
0.017762 km/pixel

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