South Polar Surface

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

It is high summer now at the South Pole of Mars. The circular surface features may look like swiss cheese, but how they form, coalesce, and disappear is not fully understood.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V42220006 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-86.1774
289.83
42220
2011-06-21 16:01
Thu, 2011-07-14
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (62 km)
0.017088 km/pixel
0.017212 km/pixel

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