Polar Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows a small part of the north polar sand sea [or erg]. In this region individual dunes are coalescing into large dune groups.

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Latitude: 77.0358

Longitude: 309.463

Orbit Number: 30155

Captured: 2008-09-30 23:38

Posted to Web: Thu, 2009-01-01

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (72 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019773 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019917 km/pixel

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