Dark and Bright

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image of the polar region illustrates the effect of the sun on polar frost. The highstanding ridges have lost all their frost cover, while the lows shaded by the ridges still have a bright frost cover.

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

Context

Image ID: 
V16484012 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-77.7232
326.527
16484
2005-09-01 07:33
Thu, 2005-12-08
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (62 km)
0.017047 km/pixel
0.017171 km/pixel

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