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Following the Tracks
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About this work
Dust devils on Mars often create long, dark markings where they pull a thin coat of dust off the surface. This image shows a cluster of these tracks on the flat ground below the south polar layered deposits, but none on the layers themselves. This tells us that either dust devils do not cross the layers, or they do not leave a track there. There are several possible reasons for this.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineFollowing the Tracks. NASA/JPL, 2019-02-20. Public domain. ID: PIA23064.
