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“Banded TARs in Iapygia”
This image of banded Tranverse Aeolian Ridges (TARs) north of Hellas Planitia (18.707° S, 62.601° E) was taken by HiRISE on January 1st, 2011. TARs are formed by wind and are larger than ripples but smaller than dunes. They are inactive and their internal structure is mostly unknown so it is hard to determine their origin. Understanding the dynamics of TARs could help reveal the past climate and wind conditions on Mars.
u/OmicronCeti is an expert on TARs; this post was inspired by his talk a couple weeks back at the first ever Areological Society meeting.
The width of this image is about 1 km.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Geohack link: geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Feature¶ms=18.707_S_62.601_E_globe:mars_type:landmark
So pretty!
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← This sequence is cropped (and looped) from the last 10 frames of the video captured on Sol 6 by a camera on the lander for NASA’s Mars Pathfinder rover. Not enough pixels, but still, mighty impressive. This evidence was discovered -way- back in the day by 
