Meridiani Planum

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Parts of Meridiani Planum have a sufrace that appears to be composed of different layers of material. In this VIS image the contrast of bright and dark materials indicates the different layers.

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Context

Image ID:

V38300013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 2.32996

Longitude: 6.31484

Orbit Number: 38300

Captured: 2010-08-02 23:18

Posted to Web: Thu, 2010-09-09

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017835 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017964 km/pixel

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