Polar Spots

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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As the sun continues to warm the south polar region, spots appear on the ice. The dark material of the spots is apparently mobile with the wind able to lengthen the spots into streaks.

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Context

Image ID:

V31720009 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -86.587

Longitude: 99.0657

Orbit Number: 31720

Captured: 2009-02-06 19:51

Posted to Web: Tue, 2009-02-24

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017257 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017382 km/pixel

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