Dust Devil Tracks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows dust devil tracks in Noachis Terra. The dark tracks show where the whirlwind was in contact with the surface and removed dust to expose the darker rocky surface.

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Context

Image ID:

V58911012 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -68.7531

Longitude: 1.20627

Orbit Number: 58911

Captured: 2015-03-26 10:47

Posted to Web: Mon, 2015-05-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.033744 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0340464 km/pixel

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