Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Many high latitude craters contain sand dunes. As it is now high summer at the South Pole of Mars, the dunes are all frost free. This VIS image of an unnamed crater in Sisyphi Planum has dunes and sand moving out of the crater.

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Context

Image ID:

V42232003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -59.5483

Longitude: 351.45

Orbit Number: 42232

Captured: 2011-06-22 15:51

Posted to Web: Mon, 2011-07-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017095 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017219 km/pixel

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