Polar Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

As northern summer approaches on Mars, dunes near the pole defrost and become darker appearing in VIS images.

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Latitude: 78.9699

Longitude: 158.204

Orbit Number: 37996

Captured: 2010-07-08 22:07

Posted to Web: Thu, 2010-08-19

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (72 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019758 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019902 km/pixel

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