Polar Dunes

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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This VIS image shows dunes near the north polar cap of Mars. It is springtime at the north pole and the dunes are starting to lose their frost cover. As the season continues towards summer the dunes will appear darker and darker as the frost sublimates.

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Context

Image ID:

V53076038 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 80.2675

Longitude: 157.439

Orbit Number: 53076

Captured: 2013-12-01 04:34

Posted to Web: Fri, 2014-01-17

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019703 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019846 km/pixel

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