Dark narrow streaks called 'recurring slope lineae' emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The dark streaks here are up to few hundred yards, or meters, long. They are hypothesized to be formed by flow of briny liquid water on Mars. The image was produced by first creating a 3-D computer model (a digital terrain map) of the area based on stereo information from two HiRISE observations, and then draping an image over the land-shape model. | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / NASA / JPL / University of Arizona |
Taille de l’image : | 2889 px × 1500 px |
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