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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

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Aeolian Landscape: Jezero Crater, Mars. Mission Sol 1234 from site 56.3438. MastCam-Z at maximum zoom (110 mm). A cropped mosaic assembled from 2 overlapping images, the images are from a larger sequence acquired by the rover. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aeolian landscapes are dunes. This looks like bedrock covered with a bit of Aeolian but I wouldn't call it a full blown aeolian landscape

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Try zooming in and check out the fringing at the edges of many of those rocks. They are ventifacts, carved by the by wind blown sand over eons. Ventifacts are formed by aeolian processes, hence the title. ☺️