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Squiggles in Hellas Planitia

NASA / JPL · 2017-10-25 · photograph (digital archive)

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At around 2,200 kilometers in diameter, Hellas Planitia is the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and hosts the lowest elevations on Mars' surface as well as a variety of landscapes. This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) covers a small central portion of the basin and shows a dune field with lots of dust devil trails. In the middle, we see what appears to be long and straight "scratch marks" running down the southeast (bottom-right) facing dune slopes.

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Credit lineSquiggles in Hellas Planitia. NASA/JPL, 2017-10-25. Public domain. ID: PIA22052.

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