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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Many high latitude craters contain sand dunes. As it is now high summer at the South Pole of Mars, the dunes are all frost free. This VIS image of an unnamed crater in Sisyphi Planum has dunes and sand moving out of the crater.

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

Context

Image ID: 
V42232003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-59.5483
351.45
42232
2011-06-22 15:51
Mon, 2011-07-18
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (62 km)
0.017095 km/pixel
0.017219 km/pixel

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