South Polar Ice

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows part of the south polar ice cap. Several unique surface textures are visible, with circular depressions at the top of the image and linear features that look like fingerprints in the bottom half of the image. This image was collected in early springtime.

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Context

Latitude: -86.6182

Longitude: 326.29

Orbit Number: 106745

Captured: 2026-01-06 15:26

Posted to Web: Tue, 2026-09-01

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (7 km)

Image Height: 7584 pixels (112 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.014836 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0150095 km/pixel

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