PIA00981: Jenkins Dune
Jenkins Dune
Target Name: Mars
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
Spacecraft: Mars Pathfinder Lander
Instrument: Imager for Mars Pathfinder
Product Size: 1277 x 1239 pixels (width x height)
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: MRPS84931
Addition Date: 1997-10-14
Primary Data Set: MARS_PATHFINDER_PAGE
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Full-Res JPEG: PIA00981.jpg (264.9 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
This image is of a landform informally called Jenkins Dune and is thought to be a small barchan dune. This feature is less than 1 foot (0.3 m) tall and perhaps 2-3 meters wide. Inferred wind direction is from the left to the right. Near the crest of the feature is a demarcation that may represent the exposure of a crust on the sediments; similar features were seen on sediments on the rock Big Joe at the Viking landing site.

Mars Pathfinder is the second in NASA's Discovery program of low-cost spacecraft with highly focused science goals. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, developed and manages the Mars Pathfinder mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1997-10-14