Polar Textures

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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With the surface frost removed by the summer sun different polar textures are exposed. This image contains polar dunes and a large region just off the permanent polar cap.

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Context

Image ID:

V30424001 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 82.0665

Longitude: 113.457

Orbit Number: 30424

Captured: 2008-10-23 03:18

Posted to Web: Fri, 2009-01-02

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 4320 pixels (172 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.039936 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.040226 km/pixel

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