USGS Multimedia Gallery: China's Qaidam Basin Landscape Similar with Mars

Title: China's Qaidam Basin Landscape Similar with Mars

Description:

Geologist, sedimentation expert and Mars Science Laboratory team member David Rubin of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center investigates longitudinal dunes in China's Qaidam Basin. He comments: "The landscape has some similarity with Mars: almost total lack of vegetation and wind-formed landscape."

Location: , Qaidam Basin, China

Date Taken: 1988

Photographer: David Rubin , USGS

Usage: This image is public domain/of free use unless otherwise stated. Please refer to the USGS Copyright section for how to credit the photo.

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Type: JPEG image - 1.39 MB
Dimensions: 1784 x 1150
Resolution: 72 dpi

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