Polar Textures

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows part of the South Polar cap. In this region the surface has numerous circular depressions, which give the appearance of a slice of swiss cheese.

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Context

Image ID:

V64848006 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -86.7725

Longitude: 355.096

Orbit Number: 64848

Captured: 2016-07-27 09:35

Posted to Web: Wed, 2016-09-21

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (5 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (20 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.00562 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.00551809 km/pixel

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