Summer in the South
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU
About this image
This VIS image shows a small area just off the margin of the southern polar cap. During winter this region is completely covered by frost. Taken during the middle of summer, this image illlustrates the surface markings that appear as the frost and ice sublimate from different portions of the surface.
Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.
Context
Image ID:
V15887004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-79.554
59.116
15887
2005-07-14 03:45
Thu, 2005-10-06
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (62 km)
0.017148 km/pixel
0.017273 km/pixel
