Dust Devil Tracks

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows an unnamed crater southeast of Hellas Planitia. The dark linear marks were created by dust devils blowing along the surface. The tracks are darker than the surroundings because the dust devil removed the surface dust, revealing the darker volcanic surface below.

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Context

Latitude: -57.329

Longitude: 89.4097

Orbit Number: 100393

Captured: 2024-08-01 14:59

Posted to Web: Wed, 2025-01-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.033888 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0342776 km/pixel

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