Memnonia Sulci

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The elongated hills in this VIS image are a feature termed yardangs. Yardangs are formed by wind activity in regions where the surface material is not well cemented. The elongation indicates the direction of the wind.

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Context

Image ID:

V65299008 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -10.1078

Longitude: 183.91

Orbit Number: 65299

Captured: 2016-09-02 13:39

Posted to Web: Mon, 2016-10-24

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01786 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0178052 km/pixel

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