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Thursday, September 29, 2011

New Colorful Picture of Mars Landscape

New from HiRISE, another picture of the surface of Mars:
"Layered Yardangs"
"This observation shows terrain on the floor of a large, degraded crater. Many sharp ridges are visible across the image, all of them aligned in a similar direction. There are patches of dark sand in the low areas between the ridges and on the ridge slopes." -Anjani Polit
Click to enlarge.  This is my current computer wallpaper.  Nice and colorfully detailed.



Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona


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