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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-08-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows streaks and scratch marks made in a thin coating of dust on the martian surface in the southern hemisphere made by passing dust devils during the summer season.
PIA08716:
Devil's Scratches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small volcano in the Syria Planum region of Mars. The lava flows that compose this small volcano are nearly hidden by a mantle of rough-textured, perhaps somewhat cemented, dust.
PIA08627:
Syrian Volcano
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-01 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dusty terrain near the west rim of Malea Patera, located southwest of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08571:
Malea Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small gullies on the north wall of a crater within the much larger Green Crater in Noachis Terra, Mars. The gullies might have formed by seepage and runoff of ground water.
PIA08547:
Green Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-06-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a large dust devil flanked by two relatively small dust devils, moving together across a lightly-dusted, south high-latitude plain on Mars.
PIA08522:
Travelling Companions
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies in the north wall of a crater south of Proctor Crater in Noachis Terra on Mars. Dark streaks cutting across the scene were formed by passing dust devils.
PIA08486:
Breaking Trail
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-05-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows neighboring networks of gullies in the northwest wall of a south middle-latitude crater west of Hellas Planitia on Mars.
PIA08470:
Side-by-Side
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark-toned sand dunes on the floor of Russell Crater in south-central, Noachis Terra on Mars.
PIA08102:
Russell Extravaganza
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of textures observed on a south middle-latitude plain east-southeast of Hellas Planitia. Dark streaks left by passing dust devils are practically ubiquitous across the scene.
PIA02888:
Remains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-03-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a variety of textures observed on a south middle-latitude plain east-southeast of Hellas Planitia. Dark streaks left by passing dust devils are practically ubiquitous across the scene.
PIA02887:
Martian Graffiti
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark streaks on a plain south of the giant impact basin, Hellas Planitia. The streaks map the routes traveled by dozens of individual southern spring and early summer dust devils.
PIA02193:
Devil-Streaked Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft image shows dark streaks created by dust devils on a plain southwest of Hellas Planitia.
PIA02162:
Streaked Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows streaks created by late spring and early summer dust devils on a field of dark sand dunes on the floor of Hooke Crater.
PIA02161:
D and D (Dunes and Devils)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-02-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft polygonally patterned ground on the floor of a trough in the southern hemisphere of Mars. The polygons could be an indicator that ground ice is or was present at this location.
PIA02152:
Broken Plain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a typical view of the martian northern plains during northern summer. In spring and summer, dust devils crisscross the plains, creating dark, filamentary streaks.
PIA06108:
Northern Plains Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil and a plethora of streaks created by previous dust devils, on the eastern floor of Mendel Crater on Mars.
PIA03687:
Devil in Mendel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-01-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust-mantled plain streaked by spring and summertime dust devils in southern Noachis Terra.
PIA03277:
Martian Artwork
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-12-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark squiggles and streaks created by passing spring and summer dust devils near Pallacopas Vallis in the martian southern hemisphere.
PIA03642:
Dust Devil Art
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a fuzzy, nearly-circular bright, active dust devil making its way across the rugged terrain of the Loire Vallis system on Mars.
PIA06354:
Loire Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a small, springtime dust devil creating a dark streak on the plains of Argyre on Mars. The small, bright dot is the dust devil.
PIA06352:
Devilish Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a the cloud feature on Mars, as it appeared over three Mars years.
PIA05079:
Celebrating 8 Years at Mars: Repeated Weather Events
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil caught in the act of creating a dark streak on the floor of the large, south mid-latitude crater, Mendel, on Mars.
PIA04283:
Caught in the Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a typical view of the vast martian northern plains. The dark, filamentary streaks were most likely formed by passing dust devils.
PIA07424:
Northern Plains Surfaces
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of large dust devils in Amazonis Planitia on Mars. Shadows are cast by the towering columns of swirling dust.
PIA07308:
Big Dust Devils
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a group of three large afternoon dust devils occurring within several kilometers of each other in northwestern Amazonis on Mars during the northern summer in November 2004.
PIA07276:
Dust Devils Together
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-01-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Wheel Tracks from Landing Site to Hills
PIA07192:
Wheel Tracks from Landing Site to Hills
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a crater on Mars. Dark streaks crisscrossing the scene were formed by passing dust devils.
PIA07183:
Northern Plains Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-12-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows an outcrop of light-toned layered rock and a plethora of dark streaks on the floor of a crater in southern Noachis Terra on Mars. The streaks were created by dozens of dust devils.
PIA07121:
Layers and Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a typical view of the martian northern plains. Dust devils crisscross the northern plains, leaving a variety of dark streaks. Bright circular features are locations of buried meteor impact craters.
PIA07064:
Northern Plains of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the vast martian northern plains in the Diacria region on Mars. The seasonal winter frost has sublimed away and dust devils leave dark streaks on the surface.
PIA07031:
Diacria Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows wild patterns of dark streaks thought to have formed by the passage of many dust devils. The dust devils disrupt the dust coating the martian surface, leaving behind a streak.
PIA06940:
Light Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows streaks and small pedestal craters found among in the Memnonia region of Mars.
PIA06846:
Wind Streak Changes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a field of dunes and a relatively flat sand sheet in a crater on Mars. Most southern high latitude dune fields occur on the floors of impact craters, and many of them are eroded into rounded or flattened forms.
PIA06840:
Sand Sheet and Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows groupings of large ripple-like windblown bedforms on the floor of a large crater in Sinus Sabaeus, south of Schiaparelli Basin on Mars.
PIA06805:
Ancient Bedforms
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-08-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows hundreds of dust devils may streak across the landscape, creating criss-cross patterns on the surface of Mars.
PIA06797:
Martian Scribbles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a scene in southern Galle Crater on Mars, otherwise known as Happy Face Crater. A series of dark sand dunes have been crisscrossed by dust devils.
PIA06723:
Galle Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows of dunes in the martian north polar region is important because it shows one of the highest northern latitude views of streaks thought to be made by passing dust devils.
PIA06334:
Polar Dust Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark streak patterns on the surface of Mars caused by dust devils.
PIA06299:
Bright Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-05-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05919:
Ares Vallis Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark-toned barchan sand dunes in Arkhangelsky Crater on Mars. Hundreds of narrow, dark streaks crisscross the dunes and the interdune terrain most likely formed by passing dust devils.
PIA05845:
Arkhangelsky Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-04-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05709:
South Polar Mesas and Hills
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05701:
South Polar Layers
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05700:
Russell Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-03-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05692:
Kaiser Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-02-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05341:
Wind vs. Dust Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dark sand dune patch that occurs on the floor of a southern hemisphere crater on Mars. Passing dust devils have disrupted the fine, bright dust that coats the surrounding terrain, leaving wildly-varied streak patterns.
PIA05259:
Dune and Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05255:
Layered Remnant
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05126:
Dust Devils Near Schiaparelli
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05123:
Galle Crater Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the area where the Mars rover Spirit is believed to have touched down.
PIA05122:
A Dynamic Spirit Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows Gusev Crater on Mars, in which the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, landed on 4 January 2004.
PIA05119:
Gusev Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04914:
Small Dust Storm in Syria/Claritas
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-12-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04903:
Devil-Streaked Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04891:
Elysium Mons Wind Streak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04876:
Galle Crater Scene
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04870:
Circles and Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-11-11 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04864:
Dust Devil Art
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-29 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a volcano and surrounding terrain on Mars that have been thickly mantled by dust which had subsequently been eroded so that it appears textured rather than smooth.
PIA04768:
Small Syrian Volcano
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dark sand dune on the floor of a crater on Mars. Recent dust devils have disrupted a thin coating of dust on the otherwise dark dune.
PIA04727:
Dune and Dust Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil in the Phlegra region of Mars. Dust devils are spinning, columnar vortices of air that move across a landscape, picking up dust as they go.
PIA04698:
Summertime Dust Devil
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a spiraling feature known as a cycloidal marking on Mars.
PIA04564:
Cycloidal Dust Devil Track
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dust-raising events -- small dust storms and a few very large dust devils in the Syria/Claritas region of Mars.
PIA04552:
Syria/Claritas Dust Storm
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of dark streaks thought to have been created by the passage of dust devils on the the floor of Argyre Basin, Mars.
PIA04524:
Argyre Dust Devil Tracks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the first day of spring in the martian southern hemisphere as seen by the spacecraft in 2003.
PIA04507:
Dunes and Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of dark streaks created by passing dust devils during early summer in the martian southern hemisphere.
PIA04502:
Martian Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil that seen climbing the wall of a crater at 4.1°S, 9.5°W on May 21, 2002. This crater is in western Terra Meridiani on Mars.
PIA03917:
A Dust Devil Making a Streak and Climbing a Crater Wall
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies emergent from a specific layer in the wall of an ancient crater within a much larger crater, Kaiser, on Mars.
PIA03753:
Gullies and Streaks on Crater wall Kaiser
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-05-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dust devils, spinning, columnar vortices of wind that move across the landscape, pick up dust, and look somewhat like miniature tornadoes in Amazonis Planitia on Mars.
PIA03223:
A Mid-Summer's Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-06-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows very large windblown sand dunes of Mars, composed of dark, rather than light grains.
PIA02047:
Big, Dark Dunes Northeast of Syrtis Major
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows dark streaks on the steep, down-wind slopes of sand dunes in Rabe Crater on Mars.
PIA02354:
Recent Sand Avalanching on Rabe Crater Dunes
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The anaglyph is helpful to see that the dark streaks really do occur on a slope in this image taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor 1999. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA02379:
Recent Movements: New Landslides in Less than 1 Martian Year
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil making a streak in Mars' Promethei Terra. Dust devils are spinning, columnar vortices of wind that move across the landscape, pick up dust, and look somewhat like miniature tornadoes.
PIA02378:
Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART II--They're the Work of the Devil!
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil making a streak in Mars' Promethei Terra. Dust devils are spinning, columnar vortices of wind that move across the landscape, pick up dust, and look somewhat like miniature tornadoes.
PIA02377:
Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART 1--What Are These?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars with wild patterns of criss-crossing dark streaks. Many of these streaks are straight and narrow, others exhibit curly arcs, twists, and loops.
PIA02376:
Dust Devils Seen Streaking Across Mars: PART 1--What Are These?
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows several dust devils in in northern Amazonis Planitia on Mars.
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Large Martian Dust Devils Caught in the Act
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This image taken on April 26, 1998 by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows small craters formed by meteor impact, several buttes and mesas, small dunes and drifts, and a mantle of dust on Mars.
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SUV Tracks On Mars? The "Devil" is in the Details
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