Bright Hills

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image shows a region of hills in the plains of Terra Cimmeria. The bright appearance is likely due to the removal of fine scale materials like dust which exposes the underlying rock.

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Context

Image ID:

V82889008 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -37.175

Longitude: 164.292

Orbit Number: 82889

Captured: 2020-08-21 09:19

Posted to Web: Fri, 2020-10-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034408 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0348766 km/pixel

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