Dunes in IR

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Several areas of dunes are located on the plains of Terra Cimmeria. The dunes appear bright in the daytime infrared due the warmer temperatures than the surrounding plains.

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Context

Image ID:

I33578005 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -65.7597

Longitude: 156.296

Orbit Number: 33578

Captured: 2009-07-09 19:43

Posted to Web: Wed, 2009-08-12

Instrument: IR

Image Width: 320 pixels (35 km)

Image Height: 3600 pixels (364 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.101201 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.111867 km/pixel

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