This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Baxter off to Mars. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps

the website behind the black. The wind patterns of Mars. I enjoy wind patterns in the morning

in New England. What am I going to learn from Mars? Bob, you've got an illustration here.

What am I watching? I've got two maps on behind the black from a paper that was written.

Scientists use the orientation of a particular type of a dune called crescent-shaped

barstand dunes. Those dunes are shaped the way they are because of the wind direction, the prevailing

winds. So that tells you where the prevailing winds are, where those dunes are located.

And they're located across the entire global surface of Mars. So these guys published

three different global maps, one a global map showing the middle latitudes. I'm

actually the equatorial latitudes up to about 60 degrees of a latitude and then a

polar map of the North Pole. What else? To show you where the global wind patterns are.

And it's really cool. You can look at it and say, okay, and they've got some features

including all the landers where they landed. And so you can see where the wind patterns are

at these various landal locations where they are relative to the volcanoes,

where they are relative to the North Pole. And it's gigantic, a limpia-unday dune sea,

it's gigantic sea that circles the North Pole. And how the wind has affected its

motion. And in fact, this map is really interesting because insight is in a gap where

there's very few winds. And that explains once again why it did not get a burst of

wind to clean off its solar panel. The opportunity is lots of wind so that that's

why it survived, chanking with the spirit they had more winds. So this is just very cool to

learn. It just tells us we're learning more about the planet and this will make it

very much easier to understand images from the surface if you know where the

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