Storm Front

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

A westward moving storm front is visible in the bottom of this image. During spring time dust storms are common features at the north pole of Mars. These storms will continue into the summer with the cloud cover becoming more diffuse as summer heightens.

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Context

Image ID:

V11714003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 77.0316

Longitude: 211.167

Orbit Number: 11714

Captured: 2004-08-04 14:59

Posted to Web: Wed, 2004-11-03

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 7584 pixels (300 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.039676 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.039964 km/pixel

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