Dark and Bright
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU
About this image
This image of the polar region illustrates the effect of the sun on polar frost. The highstanding ridges have lost all their frost cover, while the lows shaded by the ridges still have a bright frost cover.
Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.
Context
Image ID:
V16484012 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-77.7232
326.527
16484
2005-09-01 07:33
Thu, 2005-12-08
VIS
1024 pixels (17 km)
3648 pixels (62 km)
0.017047 km/pixel
0.017171 km/pixel
