Not Only Ice

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This image shows a long traverse over part of the south polar cap. As spring deepens and the cap warms dark spots emerge at the surface. At the bottom of the frame is a depression within the cap which has collected loose material and dunes have formed.

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Context

Image ID:

V23170007 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -84.3449

Longitude: 190.979

Orbit Number: 23170

Captured: 2007-03-05 19:07

Posted to Web: Wed, 2007-04-18

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 7584 pixels (259 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034163 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.034411 km/pixel

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