Sand Dunes on Fabric-like Ground
Edited Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter PR image of sand dunes on a corduroy-like landscape.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22464
Original caption: This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the permanent polar cap of Mars, encircled by sand dunes and looking like pulled threads, these dunes march across a fabric of patterned ground.
At this time of the Martian year the dunes are free of the seasonal dry ice that forms a temporary cover every winter.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Image Addition Date:
2018-05-29
Sand Dunes on Fabric-like Ground
Edited Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter PR image of sand dunes on a corduroy-like landscape.
Image source: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22464
Original caption: This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the permanent polar cap of Mars, encircled by sand dunes and looking like pulled threads, these dunes march across a fabric of patterned ground.
At this time of the Martian year the dunes are free of the seasonal dry ice that forms a temporary cover every winter.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Image Addition Date:
2018-05-29