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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-09-20 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2005-09-12 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 2005-09-23 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)
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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)
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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)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-11-27 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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.
PIA03593:
Dust Devil Streaks
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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 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 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 2006-01-30 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 2006-02-02 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 2006-02-03 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 2006-02-04 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 2006-02-19 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 2006-03-09 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 2006-03-10 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 2006-03-16 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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.
PIA02920:
Martian Streaker
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-10 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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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 2006-05-18 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 2006-05-25 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 2006-06-08 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 2006-06-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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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 2006-07-01 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 2006-07-05 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-15 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-17 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-07-23 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2006-08-31 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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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 2006-12-06 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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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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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 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 2004-01-10 Mars Mars Pathfinder (MPF)
 Imager for Mars Pathfinder
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This set of images from NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission highlight the dust devils that gust across the surface of Mars. The right image shows the dusty martian sky as our eye would see it.
PIA05039:
Pathfinder Spies Dust Devils
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-22 Earth Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Three days after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Aug. 12, 2005, launch, the NASA spacecraft was pointed toward Earth and the Mars Color Imager camera was powered up to acquire a suite of color and ultraviolet images of Earth and the Moon.
PIA04159:
Calibration Image of Earth by Mars Color Imager
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-08-22 Earth Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Three days after NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Aug. 12, 2005, launch, the spacecraft was pointed toward Earth and the Mars Color Imager camera was powered up to acquire a suite of images of Earth and the Moon.
PIA04160:
Calibration View of Earth and the Moon by Mars Color Imager Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-01-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Dust Devil Tracks in Northern Plains
PIA09548:
Dust Devil Tracks in Northern Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2007-02-01 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Crater Floor in Arabia Terra Region
PIA09581:
Crater Floor in Arabia Terra Region
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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 2008-01-24 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Dust-Devil Tracks in Southern Schiaparelli Basin
PIA10226:
Dust-Devil Tracks in Southern Schiaparelli Basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-03-03 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Amazingly, this image has captured at least four Martian avalanches, or debris falls, in action. It was taken on February 19, 2008, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA10245:
Caught in Action: Avalanches on North Polar Scarps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-05-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Context Camera View in Phoenix Landing Region in Martian Arctic
PIA10632:
Context Camera View in Phoenix Landing Region in Martian Arctic
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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 2008-05-06 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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Phoenix Landing Area Viewed by Mars Color Imager
PIA10634:
Phoenix Landing Area Viewed by Mars Color Imager
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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
Full Resolution:     TIFF (14.76 MB)     JPEG (1.1 MB)
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 2015-01-22 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This observation, taken in June 2014, covers a small 1-kilometer sized simple crater located in the Southern hemisphere in late Martian winter as Mars is heading into spring.
PIA19139:
Crater Slopes: The Power of a Repeat Image
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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 2015-09-16 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The workings of the Martian winds are visible in this image of sand dunes trapped inside an unnamed crater in southern Terra Cimmeria captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.
PIA19941:
Which Came First?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-09-30 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows a channel system flowing to the southwest toward the huge Hellas impact basin.
PIA19961:
Dynamic Mars
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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 2017-01-19 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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The large dark feature is a classic Martian sand dune on Wirtz Crater as seen by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
PIA12289:
The Changing Dunes of Wirtz Crater
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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 2018-11-27 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on March 29, 2011 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows dunes with ripples on their upwind slopes and dark streaks on their downwind slopes.
PIA22869:
Active Dunes in Wirtz Crater
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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)
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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 2020-10-12 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on September 3, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows loops in the tracks that can often be used to discern the direction traveled by dust devils.
PIA24148:
Dust Devil Dance
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-26 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
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This image acquired on October 30, 2020 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a dust devil forming by rising and rotating warm air pockets.
PIA24465:
A Dust Devil is Born
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-11-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Twenty-one times during the first 12 weeks that NASA's Mars rover Curiosity worked on Mars, the rover's Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) detected brief dips in air pressure that could be caused by a passing whirlwind.
PIA16476:
Signs of a Whirlwind in Gale Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from an animation shows a dust-carrying whirlwind, called a dust devil, scooting across the ground inside Gale Crater, as observed on the local summer afternoon of NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover's on Feb. 1, 2017.
PIA21270:
Martian Dust Devil Action in Gale Crater, Sol 1597 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Beyond a dark sand dune closer to the rover, a Martian dust devil passes in front of the horizon in this frame from an animation from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA21481:
Dust Devil Passes Near Martian Sand Dune Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Dust devils dance in the distance in this frame from a sequence of images taken by the Navigation Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Feb. 12, 2017, during the summer afternoon.
PIA21482:
Curiosity Observes Whirlwinds Carrying Martian Dust Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-02-27 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This frame from a sequence of images shows a dust-carrying whirlwind, called a dust devil, on lower Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, as viewed by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover during the summer afternoon of Feb. 18, 2017.
PIA21483:
Swirling Dust in Gale Crater, Mars, Sol 1613 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-09-01 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover spotted this dust devil with one of its Navigation Cameras around 11:35 a.m. local Mars time on Aug. 9, 2020 (the 2,847th Martian day, or sol, of the mission).
PIA24039:
Curiosity Spots a Dust Devil in the Hills
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Add Image to Favorite List 2022-04-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used one of its Hazcams to catch this apparent dusty wind gust blowing overhead on March 18, 2022.
PIA25177:
Curiosity's Hazcam Catches a Dusty Wind Gust
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-01-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover used its front and rear black-and-white Hazcams to capture 12 hours of a Martian day. The rover's shadow is visible on the surface in these images taken by the front Hazcam.
PIA26209:
Curiosity's Hazcams Capture a Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured streaks and specks using one of its navigation cameras just as particles from a solar storm arrived on the Martian surface. These artifacts are caused by energetic particles hitting the camera's image detector.
PIA26302:
Curiosity Sees Streaks and Specks During 2024 Solar Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2024-06-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The specks in this scene were caused by charged particles from a solar storm hitting a camera aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
PIA26303:
Curiosity Sees Specks Caused By 2024 Solar Storm While Recording a Wind Gust on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-14 Mars Phoenix
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander caught this dust devil nearby on Sept. 9, 2008. Dust devils are whirlwinds that often occur when the Sun heats the surface of Mars. Warm air rises in a whirling motion, stirring dust up from the surface like a miniature tornado.
PIA11153:
Martian Arctic Dust Devil and Phoenix Meteorology Mast
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-14 Mars Phoenix
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander caught this dust devil nearby on Sept. 9, 2008. Dust devils are whirlwinds that often occur when the Sun heats the surface of Mars. Warm air rises in a whirling motion, stirring dust up from the surface like a miniature tornado.
PIA11154:
Martian Arctic Dust Devil, Phoenix Sol 104
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-09-14 Mars Phoenix
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The Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander caught this dust devil in action west of the lander on Sol 104, or the 104th Martian day of the mission, Sept. 9, 2008.
PIA11155:
Martian Dust Devil Movie, Phoenix Sol 104 Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2008-10-16 Mars Phoenix
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This frame from a series of images shows NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's telltale instrument waving in the Martian wind. Documenting the telltale's movement helps mission scientists and engineers determine what the wind is like on Mars.
PIA11235:
Telltale Instrument Waving in the Martian Wind Animation Icon
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