Southern Crater

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This crater is located south of Agassiz Crater. It is likely that the polar freeze/thaw/frost cycle is responsible for unusual appearance of the ejecta region around the crater.

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Context

Image ID:

V16599013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -76.22

Longitude: 247.775

Orbit Number: 16599

Captured: 2005-09-10 18:48

Posted to Web: Mon, 2005-11-28

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017105 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.017229 km/pixel

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