Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image shows realtively dark coarse grained material forming individual dunes coalescing into a relatively uniform sand sheet. The origin of the dark sand that formed these dunes have been suggested to be the northern polar layered deposits.

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Context

Image ID:

V05420018 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: 77.6588

Longitude: 309.396

Orbit Number: 5420

Captured: 2003-03-05 11:26

Posted to Web: Mon, 2003-03-31

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019684 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019827 km/pixel

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