Wegener Crater Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Located at 64 degrees south latitude, the dunes in Wegener Crater are just beginning to lose their frost cover. The 'salt and pepper' appearance is bright frost and dark dune on the crater floor.

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Context

Image ID:

V39736004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -64.2108

Longitude: 355.252

Orbit Number: 39736

Captured: 2010-11-29 03:31

Posted to Web: Thu, 2011-01-13

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017127 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017252 km/pixel

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