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Rock Stripe Pattern on Hawaii's Mauna Kea
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This image shows stone stripes on the side of a volcanic cone on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The stripes are made of small rock fragments and they are aligned downhill as freeze-thaw cycles have lifted them up and out of the finer-grained regolith, and moved them to the sides, forming stone stripes. This site is at about 13,450-foot (4,100-meter) altitude on the mountain. For scale, the rock cluster toward the bottom right of the image is approximately 1 foot (30 centimeters) wide.
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Credit lineRock Stripe Pattern on Hawaii's Mauna Kea. NASA/JPL, 2018-02-15. Public domain. ID: PIA22219.
