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A Criss-Cross Landscape with Fresh Craters
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About this work
This image shows terrain near Mangala Valles. At the bottom of the image are two black spots that are recent impact craters. The black spots form because the craters exposed cleaner materials in the subsurface beneath the bright, dusty surface. Our image is also interesting because the surface has a criss-cross pattern formed by wind activity. Bright ripples that are oriented from the upper right to the lower left are perpendicular to the wind flow.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineA Criss-Cross Landscape with Fresh Craters. NASA/JPL, 2020-10-12. Public domain. ID: PIA24146.
