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Devil-Streaked Plain

This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark streaks on a plain south of the giant impact basin, Hellas Planitia. The streaks map the routes traveled by dozens of individual southern spring and early summer dust devils.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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19 February 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows dark streaks on a plain south of the giant impact basin, Hellas Planitia. The streaks map the routes traveled by dozens of individual southern spring and early summer dust devils.

Location near: 68.4°S, 296.1°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Summer