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PIA25235: HiRISE Spots Slope Streaks Fanning Out on Mars
These dark streaks, also known as slope streaks, resulted from dust avalanches on Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured them on Dec. 26, 2017.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) 
 Spacecraft:  Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 Instrument:  HiRISE 
 Product Size:  1600 x 1200 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  University of Arizona 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25235.tif (5.762 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25235.jpg (288.7 kB)  

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These dark streaks, also known as "slope streaks," on Mars resulted from dust avalanches. They were captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on Dec. 26, 2017.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages MRO for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2022-05-05