A Piece of Mars: It’s all about wind scour here in this 0.75×0.75 km (0.47×0.47 mi) view. The big “swoop” is an erosional channel dug into the surface by winds (blowing from the lower left) trying to erode the hills in the center. But notice that the hills are all aligned to the upper left/lower right, like a school of fish swimming the same way). That alignment tells us there’s a second wind that came along later, blowing (I think) from the lower right. That wind also left behind some ripples (TARs, really) that swirled around the older big “swoop” channel. (HiRISE ESP_016372_1975, NASA/JPL, Univ. of Arizona)