Guide to Magellan Image
Interpretation
Figure 6-7. Radar-bright outflow
deposits from the crater Aglaonice have been reworked by the wind to
produce wind streaks and dunes (25°S, 339°E). The wind,
which is flowing from the east to the west, has produced linear
radar-bright and -dark streaks and dunes that are transverse to the
streaks. The bright appearance of the dunes results from
quasi-specular returns from dune faces oriented normal to the radar
illumination. Radar illumination is from the left at an incidence
angle of 35 deg.
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