Polar Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The dunes in this polar crater are starting to darken as the sun warms the surface and the frost sublimates (becomes gas).

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Latitude: 79.2162

Longitude: 61.0619

Orbit Number: 28342

Captured: 2008-05-04 16:39

Posted to Web: Mon, 2008-06-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019707 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.01985 km/pixel

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