South Polar Textures

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

While yesterday's VIS image showed a texture of oval depressions (swiss cheese), today's VIS image shows a linear surface texture of the south polar cap. This texture is described as looking like a thumbprint.

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

Context

Image ID:

V56378003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -77.7252

Longitude: 184.825

Orbit Number: 56378

Captured: 2014-08-29 21:37

Posted to Web: Tue, 2014-10-07

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017139 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017264 km/pixel

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