# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BNFhGfiDjfC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15346296-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-11-21T20:49:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Happy #MarsMonday folks! Check out the stunning detail of the distinctively fluted surface and elongated hills in this image in Medusae Fossae on Mars are caused by wind erosion of a soft fine-grained rock. Called yardangs, these features are aligned with the prevailing wind direction. This wind direction would have dominated for a very long time to carve these large-scale features into the exposed rock we see today. The image was acquired at 15:25 local Mars time on June 28, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona 
#NASA #journeytomars NASAJPL #JPL #planetary #science

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