Polar Outliers

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image is located near the south polar cap and exhibits the same layering of ice and dust. Outliers are regions that were once part of a larger regional feature but over the course of time processes have isolated them from the main feature.

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Context

Latitude: -82.2123

Longitude: 273.376

Orbit Number: 76098

Captured: 2019-02-09 04:24

Posted to Web: Fri, 2019-04-26

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (16 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (56 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.031023 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0314349 km/pixel

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