Warm Sand
About this image
This infrared image covers a portion of the surface of Mars north of Proctor Crater. The sand dunes in the bottom of the crater [top of the image] show up bright in this daytime infrared image because they are warm. The dunes are dark in color. The THEMIS infrared camera is used to detect surface and atmospheric temperatures.
Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.
Context
Image ID:
I23888005 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-50.1029
30.0651
23888
2007-05-03 21:43
Tue, 2007-06-12
IR
320 pixels (30 km)
3600 pixels (364 km)
0.101277 km/pixel
0.096174 km/pixel