Overview
- Yardangs align consistently toward the southeast, recording prevailing winds that carved grooves tens of kilometers long.
- The scene lies at the northern end of Eumenides Dorsum within the dust-rich Medusae Fossae Formation east of the Tharsis volcanic rise.
- Elongated ridges overlie and border a platy-flow lava crust, indicating wind erosion occurred after the lava was emplaced and cooled.
- A relatively fresh crater shows a broad, wavy-edged ejecta blanket that interacts with the surrounding wind-sculpted terrain.
- Mars Express captured the view with the HRSC, with data processed by DLR and image products produced by Freie Universität Berlin, covering an area nearly the size of Belgium.