Rabe Dunes in IR

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Sand dunes on the floor of Rabe Crater are brighter in this infrared image than the surrounding materials. This is because the sand is warmer than the surrounding rock.

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Context

Image ID:

I57712007 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -43.7612

Longitude: 34.3755

Orbit Number: 57712

Captured: 2014-12-17 17:16

Posted to Web: Tue, 2015-02-03

Instrument: IR

Image Width: 320 pixels (30 km)

Image Height: 784 pixels (79 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.101297 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.09569 km/pixel

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