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Large Windblown Ripples

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04806
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-519, 20 October 2003

This April 2003 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) high resolution image shows a depression in the martian southern cratered highlands near 1.3°S, 244.3°W. The floor of the depression and some nearby craters are covered by large windblown ripples or small sand dunes. This image of ancient martian terrain covers an area 3 km (1.9 mi) across and is illuminated by sunlight from the upper left.