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Windy Work

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows crescent-shaped, scooped-out hollows where wind has eroded the local bedrock in the Apollinaris Sulci region on Mars.
PIA08715
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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30 August 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows crescent-shaped, scooped-out hollows where wind has eroded the local bedrock in the Apollinaris Sulci region.

Location near: 11.8°S, 179.5°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: lower left
Season: Southern Summer