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Wind-Eroded Landscape

Aug. 5, 2005
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust-mantled, wind-eroded landscape in the Medusae Sulci region of Mars.

5 August 2005
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a dust-mantled, wind-eroded landscape in the Medusae Sulci region of Mars. Wind eroded the bedrock in this region, and then, later, windblown dust covered much of the terrain.

Location near: 5.7°S, 160.2°W
Image width: width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Southern Spring

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