Dark Slope Streaks

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Dark slope streaks, like the ones on the rim of a unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea, are thought to have been formed by material moving down slope due to gravity. As the lighter toned fine materials are removed, the darker toned underlying materials are exposed.

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Context

Image ID:

V36989024 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 9.14607

Longitude: 28.0491

Orbit Number: 36989

Captured: 2010-04-17 00:33

Posted to Web: Wed, 2010-06-16

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017921 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018051 km/pixel

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