South Polar Surface
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.
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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
