Dark Slope Streaks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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All three of these craters in Arabia Terra contain numerous dark slope streaks. The dark streaks mark where dusty material has been removed, revealing the darker material below. Small dust, dirt, or rock avalanches likely produce these marks.

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Context

Image ID:

V26471027 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 19.0736

Longitude: 18.7117

Orbit Number: 26471

Captured: 2007-12-02 15:29

Posted to Web: Fri, 2008-03-14

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (66 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01824 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018373 km/pixel

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