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NASA image: Yardangs
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Aug 25, 2006

Yardangs

Wind action in the Medusae Fossae region is creating yardangs in the easily eroded material

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NASA image: Memnonia Sulci
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Oct 24, 2016

Memnonia Sulci

The elongated hills in this VIS image are a feature termed yardangs. Yardangs are formed by wind activity in regions...

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NASA image: Yardangs Forming Near Gordii Dorsum
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Apr 30, 2014

Yardangs Forming Near Gordii Dorsum

Yardangs are streamlined hills that are carved by wind erosion from bedrock. NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter viewed...

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NASA image: Wind Etching
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Aug 9, 2016

Wind Etching

Today's VIS image is located in a region that has been heavily modified by wind action. The narrow ridge/valley...

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NASA image: Yardangs
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Aug 28, 2019

Yardangs

Yardangs are present at the top of this VIS image. These features are created by long term winds scouring a poor...

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NASA image: Yardangs: Nature's Weathervanes
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Nov 28, 2017

Yardangs: Nature's Weathervanes

The prominent tear-shaped features in this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are erosional...

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NASA image: Yardangs
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May 28, 2013

Yardangs

This image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows wind erosion that has formed yardangs. These parallel sets of...

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NASA image: Yardangs on Zephyria Planum
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Jan 29, 2010

Yardangs on Zephyria Planum

This image of Zephyria Planum, taken by NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, shows wind eroded yardangs.

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NASA image: Yardangs
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Oct 13, 2014

Yardangs

This image from NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a region near Memnonia Sulci, which has been eroded by the...

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NASA image: Yardang City
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Sep 24, 2006

Yardang City

This MOC image shows the contact between a group of yardangs, tapered ridges formed by the removal of relatively...

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NASA image: Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit
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Nov 18, 2024

Curiosity Views the Yardang Unit

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a geological region called the Yardang Unit using its Mast Camera,...

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NASA image: Yardang-Sculpted Deposits from Apollonaris Patera
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Aug 12, 2015

Yardang-Sculpted Deposits from Apollonaris Patera

This observation from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows a terrain of relatively smooth region that...

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NASA image: On the Beauty of Yardangs
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May 6, 2015

On the Beauty of Yardangs

Some geological materials (like solid rock) are incredibly tough, but others (like piles of volcanic ash) are quite...

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NASA image: Yardangs in Medusa Fossae
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Aug 5, 2002

Yardangs in Medusa Fossae

This image from NASA Mars Odyssey covers a portion of the Medusa Fossae formation, near the equator of Mars. The...

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NASA image: Aeolis Yardangs
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Jan 12, 2006

Aeolis Yardangs

This MGS MOC image shows a group of tapered ridges, known as yardangs, which formed by wind erosion of a relatively...

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NASA image: Lucus Planum Yardangs
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Jul 22, 2020

Lucus Planum Yardangs

Today's VIS image is located on Lucus Planum. The surface in this image has been eroded by the wind to form features...

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NASA image: Yardangs
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Aug 17, 2016

Yardangs

Today's VIS image is located in Aeolis Mensae, east of Gale Crater. The linear ridge/valley system near the center...

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NASA image: Yardangs near Olympus Mons
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Dec 16, 2002

Yardangs near Olympus Mons

In this region of the Olympus Mons aureole, located to the SW of the volcano, the surface has been eroded by the...

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NASA image: Wind Carved Rock
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Oct 19, 2016

Wind Carved Rock

The distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae are caused by wind erosion of a...

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NASA image: Apollinaris Sulci Yardangs
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Nov 2, 2021

Apollinaris Sulci Yardangs

Today's VIS image shows part of Apollinaris Sulci. Yardangs are present at the top of this VIS image. These features...

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NASA image: Amazonis Planitia yardangs
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Nov 26, 2002

Amazonis Planitia yardangs

This wind-swept region of Amazonis Planitia, imaged here by NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft, has been so uniformly...

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NASA image: Which Came First, the Yardang or the Platy Flow?
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Feb 13, 2014

Which Came First, the Yardang or the Platy Flow?

One of the great strengths of the HiRISE camera onboard NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is that its high resolution...

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NASA image: Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos, Mars
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Feb 4, 2015

Yardangs in Arsinoes Chaos, Mars

This view of Martian surface features shaped by effects of winds was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science...

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NASA image: Lycus Sulci
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Feb 26, 2003

Lycus Sulci

The long sharp-crested features observed in this image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft are named yardangs....

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NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
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