Wind Erosion

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

In regions where the surface materials are poorly cemented the wind acts to erode the materials into several different forms. This VIS image shows the margin between materials being sculpted by the wind into long, narrow hills and a surface not visibly affected by the wind.

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Context

Latitude: -6.78782

Longitude: 188.219

Orbit Number: 44722

Captured: 2012-01-13 14:37

Posted to Web: Mon, 2012-02-13

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (64 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017777 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.018253 km/pixel

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