Frosty Crater

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This unnamed crater contains a small dune field in the central part of its floor. This image was collected in northern spring and the dunes are still frost covered. As the season moves into northern summer the dunes will shed the frost and appear dark.

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

Context

Image ID:

V61026003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 70.0473

Longitude: 352.633

Orbit Number: 61026

Captured: 2015-09-16 15:39

Posted to Web: Thu, 2015-11-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (72 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019794 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0199576 km/pixel

View this image on a map

Downloads

PNG | JPEG (high res) | JPEG (reduced res) | PDF | TIFF