Erosion and Wind Deposition

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ April 25, 2003

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Streamlined buttes and mesas are left as remnants of an erosive wind that has carried away sediments and even the rim of a small crater in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

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