Memnonia Landscape
June 28, 2012
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows a contact between a dust-covered plain and a dust-mantled, textured upland in the Memnonia Sulci region of Mars. The dominant landforms in this scene are yardangs—they are the product of extensive wind erosion of a relatively poorly-consolidated, sand-bearing material (e.g., deposits of volcanic ash or poorly cemented sedimentary rocks). MGS MOC Release No. MOC2-1507, 28 June 2006
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Credits: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
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Environment, Environment, Environment, Space, Spacecraft, Space exploration, Memnonia quadrangle, Memnonia quadrangle, Memnonia quadrangle, Yardang, Yardang, Yardang, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Global Surveyor, Malin Space Science Systems, Malin Space Science Systems, Malin Space Science Systems, Mars, Mars, Mars
