North Polar Layers

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows the layering of the north polar cap. Such layering is visible on the sides of troughs carved into the ice.

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Latitude: 81.4902

Longitude: 51.9188

Orbit Number: 54558

Captured: 2014-04-02 03:27

Posted to Web: Mon, 2014-06-09

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019683 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019826 km/pixel

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