09-09-2006, 16:04
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Curmudgeon
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Herndon, VA
Posts: 3,176
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Re: Dave's other cars keep going
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Originally Posted by Richard
Thanks again, Dave. This is an awesome image!
What is the apparent quasi-tessellation feature at the center of Victoria? It reminds me of a dry lake bed, as if the crater had once been filled with water.
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Sand dunes, composed of sand and surface dust that has been blown into the crater and trapped there. Local wind patterns inside the crater are strong enough to move the material around to form the dunes, but are insufficient to blow the material out of the crater. We saw the same structures inside Endurance Crater earlier in the mission (you can see them at the bottom of the crater in this image.
-dave
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