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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-08-15 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
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This graphic illustrates the wind pattern in a dust devil, and presents the characteristic pressure and wind speed signatures expected if a dust devil were to pass directly over the NASA's Pathfinder lander.
PIA00799:
Dust Devil Schematic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-08-15 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
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This figure shows the signature of a dust devil that passed over NASA's Pathfinder Lander on Sol 25. Since then we have seen several similar features. Sol 1 began on July 4, 1997.
PIA00900:
Dust Devil - Sol 25
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Context Camera Spots Dust Devils at Phoenix Landing Site
PIA10633:
Context Camera Spots Dust Devils at Phoenix Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-15 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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Dust Devils Seen by Spirit
PIA07458:
Dust Devils Seen by Spirit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-19 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
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This image shows dust devils moving across the plain inside Mars' Gusev Crater, as seen with a hazard-identification camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on July 29, 2005.
PIA04156:
Wide-Angle View of Gusev Dust Devil, Sol 559 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-21 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Signs of Eolian and Periglacial Activity at Vastitas Borealis
PIA09610:
Signs of Eolian and Periglacial Activity at Vastitas Borealis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2009-08-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This telescopic view from orbit around Mars catches a Martian dust devil in action in the planet's southern hemisphere. The swirling vortex of dust can be seen near the center of the image.
PIA12168:
Martian Dust Devil with Track and Shadow
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was targeted to study knobs in Mars' northern plains, north of Scandia Crater. The knobs are clearly imaged, but what surprised scientists was a dust devil visible in the south-central part of the image.
PIA12876:
Record-Breaking Dust Devil Caught in the Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-06-09 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the west-facing side of an impact crater in the mid-latitudes of Mars' northern hemisphere. This crater has gullies along its walls that are composed of alcoves, channels and debris aprons.
PIA13186:
Northern Hemisphere Gullies on West-Facing Crater Slope, Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-07-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Rover shows a degraded impact crater in the southern highlands. Part of the crater rim is visible at the top and bottom of the image, with the boulder-covered crater floor in the center.
PIA13264:
Bouldery Deposit on Crater Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a Southern hemisphere crater with gullies, dunes, periglacial modification, bright rock deposits, and dust devil tracks.
PIA13538:
Southern Hemisphere Crater with Dune Field
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The Russell Crater dune field is covered seasonally by carbon dioxide frost; this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the dune field after the frost has sublimated. There are just a few patches left of the bright seasonal frost.
PIA13539:
Russell Crater Dunes, Defrosted
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-03-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The scene is a late-spring afternoon in the Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars.
PIA15116:
The Serpent Dust Devil of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-04 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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A Martian dust devil was captured winding its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14, 2012 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA15545:
Mars' Whirling Dust Devil Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sand dune field in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The dark lines swirling over the surface of the dunes are the tracks of dust devils.
PIA17728:
Dust Devil Tracks and Slope Streaks on Martian Sand Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-02-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This southern autumn image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter offers a view of frosty dunes. The sunlight is shining on the dunes from the upper right.
PIA18114:
Frost in Dune Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-06-18 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The North Polar layered deposits (NPLD) are a stack of layers of ice and dust at the North Pole of Mars. The layers are thought to have been deposited over millions of years. This image is from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA18587:
Waiting for Dust Devils
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-25 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image is of a portion of the Southern plains region within Hellas, the largest impact basin on Mars, with a diameter of about 2300 kilometers (1400 miles), as observed by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA19350:
Pitted Landforms in Southern Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-07-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the central peak in Porter Crater. Southward on the slopes below the peak is a large dune field.
PIA19853:
Potential Active Processes in Porter Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-11-05 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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On an early fall afternoon in Ganges Chasma (Valles Marineris), NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft managed to capture a cluster of eight dust devils.
PIA20045:
Marching Dust Devils
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-15 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a portion of one of many dust devils on Mars.
PIA21457:
A Dust Devil on Hilly Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spied this large crescent dune in Kaiser Crater showing the scars of many types of seasonal erosional activities.
PIA21458:
Scars of Erosion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-06-02 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows regions of geologic diversity within an unnamed crater, formed in the Southern highlands of Mars.
PIA21654:
Gullies and Craters and Dunes, Oh My!
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-10-23 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter covers a small central portion of the Hellas Planitia basin, the largest visible impact basin in the Solar System, and shows a dune field with lots of dust devil trails.
PIA22052:
Squiggles in Hellas Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-12-07 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image shows the surface of Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on May 30, 2014. The contrast has been enhanced in this image to better show the region where InSight landed on Nov. 26, 2018.
PIA22927:
Of Wind and Dust Devils on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-20 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
 HiRISE
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This image acquired on January 13, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a cluster of dust devil tracks on the flat ground below the south polar layered deposits, but none on the layers themselves.
PIA23064:
Following the Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-02-14 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image, acquired on October 1, 2019 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows yet another stunning image of an active dust devil on Mars.
PIA23736:
The Devil is in the Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-07-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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.
PIA01463:
SUV Tracks On Mars? The "Devil" is in the Details
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-02 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows several dust devils in in northern Amazonis Planitia on Mars.
PIA02087:
Large Martian Dust Devils Caught in the Act
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-04-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows many tens of layers of several meters thickness in the walls of a mesa in Melas Chasma in Valles Marineris on Mars. Erosion by mass wasting, landslides, has exposed these layers creating the dark fan-shaped deposits.
PIA02398:
Layers and a Dust Devil in Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-05-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2002-08-07 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2003-05-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2003-05-19 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-06-12 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2003-08-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2003-11-18 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04875:
Sabaeus Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA04973:
Daedalia Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05120:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER-A) Spirit Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2004-01-09 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 2004-01-24 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the rover Opportunity's landing site in Meridiani Planum on Mars. Dark-toned materials of Meridiani Planum cover a lighter-toned substrate that may consist of layered rock.
PIA05251:
Mars Exploration Rover (MER-B) Opportunity Landing Site
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-01-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.019 MB)     JPEG (133.4 kB)
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 2004-03-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows
PIA05536:
Isidis Dust Devil
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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 2004-06-09 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2004-06-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil in western Tithonium Chasma on Mars. The dark splotch to the right of the dust devil is its shadow.
PIA06327:
Tithonium Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-30 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2004-08-22 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a suite of dark sand dunes that formed in winds blowing from right to left, along with smaller, lighter-toned ripples and many dark dust devil tracks.
PIA06807:
Dunes and Dust Devil Tracks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-09-08 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil in a cratered plain in southern Acidalia Planitia on Mars.
PIA06859:
September Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-10-14 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2004-11-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-01-03 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-02-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil in far western Syria Planum on Mars.
PIA07339:
Syrian Dust Devil
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-03-04 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows ight-toned dust devil streaks on the southern floor of Schiaparelli Crater on Mars.
PIA07426:
Bright Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows the southern rim of the summit crater, or caldera, of the intermediate-sized martian volcano, Ulysses Patera on Mars.
PIA04292:
Recently-Formed Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-09-25 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-11-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows gullies and dust devil streaks on the slopes of a large dune in Russell Crater. Gullies on martian dunes typically occur only in the Noachis Terra region.
PIA03089:
Russell Dune Gullies
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-26 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of dark streaks created by spring and summer dust devil activity in Argyre Planitia on Mars.
PIA03592:
Argyre Streaks
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a plethora of dark streaks created by spring and summer dust devil activity in Argyre Planitia on Mars.
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Dust Devil Streaks
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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.
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Devil in Mendel
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil producing a track among dozens of other, preexisting streaks on a dusty, south middle-latitude plain on Mars.
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Martian Streaker
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This image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a dust devil traveling across a plain west-southwest of Schiaparelli Crater, in far eastern Sinus Meridiani. A dust devil is casting a shadow toward the northeast, just south of an egg-shaped crater.
PIA08058:
Plains Traveler
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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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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a mound of layered rock in places over-ridden by dark sand dunes occurring immediately south of the 'mouth' of Gale Crater (also know as 'Happy Face Crater') on Mars. Groups of layers cut across each other in places.
PIA08544:
Galle Bedding
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a cratered plain west of Schiaparelli Crater, Mars. The area captured in this image, and areas adjacent to it, are known for high dust devil traffic.
PIA08575:
Rush Hour
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows buttes and knobs of light-toned rock, perhaps sedimentary in origin, on the floor of Rabe Crater on Mars. The buttes and knobs are surrounded by dark, windblown sands that are crisscrossed dust devil tracks.
PIA08606:
Rabe Remnants
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a bright plain west of Schiaparelli Crater, Mars, some of them long-lived and others that are transient. The circular features scattered throughout are impact crater in a variety of states of degradation.
PIA08608:
Yard Sale
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows a few of the dustiest regions on Mars: Tharsis, Amazonis, and Arabia.
PIA09021:
Procedure for Finding New Impact Sites on Mars Using the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera
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Spirit Captures Two Dust Devils On the Move
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Spirit Captures Two Dust Devils On the Move
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 456 (Plain and Isolated)
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 456 (Plain and Isolated) Animation Icon
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 456 (Enhanced)
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 456 (Enhanced) Animation Icon
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 459 (Plain and Isolated)
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 459 (Plain and Isolated) Animation Icon
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 459 (Enhanced)
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Gusev Dust Devil Movie, Sol 459 (Enhanced) Animation Icon
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Wind-Driven Traveler on Mars (Spirit Sol 486)
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Wind-Driven Traveler on Mars (Spirit Sol 486) Animation Icon
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Dust Devil in Gusev Crater, Sol 445
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Dust Devil in Gusev Crater, Sol 445 Animation Icon
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Dust Devil Near Spirit, Sol 446
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Dust Devil Near Spirit, Sol 446 Animation Icon
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Large Dust Devil on Horizon, Sol 468
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Large Dust Devil on Horizon, Sol 468 Animation Icon
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Whirlwind Drama During Spirit's 496th Sol
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Whirlwind Drama During Spirit's 496th Sol Animation Icon
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This image shows several dust devils moving across the plain inside Mars' Gusev Crater. It consists of frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the rover's 525th martian day, or sol (June 25, 2005).
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Dust Devils at Gusev, Sol 525 Animation Icon
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This image shows a dust devil seen by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on July 2, 2005. The dust-carrying whirlwind is moving across a plain inside Gusev Crater and viewed from Spirit's vantage point on hills rising from the plain.
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Gusev Dust Devil, sol 532 Animation Icon
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This image shows some distant dust devils and one closer one blowing across the floor of Mars' Gusev Crater. It consists of frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on July 7, 2005.
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Dust Devils at Gusev, Sol 537 Animation Icon
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One dust devil scoots across the center of the view showing a few dust devils inside Mars' Gusev Crater. The image was taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the rover's 543rd martian day, or sol (July 13, 2005).
PIA04155:
Gusev Dust Devil, Sol 543 Animation Icon
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This image shows several dust devils moving from right to left across a plain inside Mars' Gusev Crater, as seen from the vantage point of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in hills rising from the plain on July 13, 2005.
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Sol 568 Dust Devil in Gusev, Unenhanced Animation Icon
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NASA's Spirit rover took this image from the summit of 'Husband Hill,' where three dust devils are clearly visible in the plains of Gusev Crater.
PIA04185:
A Great Place to Watch the Weather
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This anaglyph from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Spiriti, was taken from the summit of 'Husband Hill,' three dust devils are clearly visible in the plains of Gusev Crater. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA04186:
A Great Place to Watch the Weather (3-D)
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NASA's Spirit rover took this image from the summit of 'Husband Hill,' where three dust devils are clearly visible in the plains of Gusev Crater.
PIA04187:
A Great Place to Watch the Weather (vertical)
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NASA's Spirit rover took this image from the summit of 'Husband Hill,' where three dust devils are clearly visible in the plains of Gusev Crater.
PIA04188:
A Great Place to Watch the Weather (polar)
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On sol 1120 (February 26, 2007), the navigation camera aboard NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured one of the best dust devils it's seen in its three-plus year mission.
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Dust Devils Whip by Spirit Animation Icon
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit took the images combined to make this stereo view on March 21, 2009. West is at the center, where a dust devil is visible in the distance. 3D glasses are necessary to view this image.
PIA11960:
Dust Devil in Spirit's View Ahead on Sol 1854 (Stereo)
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Dust Devil in Spirit's View Ahead on Sol 1854
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Dust Devil in Spirit's View Ahead on Sol 1854
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Researchers used the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit to look for dust devils near the rover during the mission's 1,919th Martian day, or sol (May 27, 2009).
PIA12120:
Huge Dust Devil Northwest of Spirit, Sol 1919
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