Polar Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

The dark sand dunes in this image are only a very small portion of the sand sea that surrounds the north polar cap of Mars.

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

Latitude: 80.6631

Longitude: 311.457

Orbit Number: 21083

Captured: 2006-09-15 00:08

Posted to Web: Tue, 2006-12-12

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019665 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019808 km/pixel

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