South Polar Surface

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Having seen "thumbprint" terrain a few days ago, here is a THEMIS VIS image of "swiss cheese" terrain. Sometimes simple terms like these can accurately describe the appearance of a surface, but it does not relate at all to how that surface texture may have formed.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.

Context

Latitude: -86.4502

Longitude: 287.016

Orbit Number: 40660

Captured: 2011-02-13 05:35

Posted to Web: Tue, 2011-03-29

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.0171 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017225 km/pixel

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