South Polar Clouds

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image of low altitude clouds perfectly illustrates how the surface topography of the polar cap controls the creation of visible clouds.

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Image ID:

Latitude: -86.6024

Longitude: 96.9314

Orbit Number: 40939

Captured: 2011-03-08 04:56

Posted to Web: Fri, 2011-04-08

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (61 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.033885 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.034319 km/pixel

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