Storm Front

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Dust clouds often can obscure the surface of Mars. When an image captures the edge of a dust storm front the loss of surface information is more than compensated for by the information that can be gleaned from analysis of the image. As dust storm formation and location are unpredictable, any images of such features are priceless.

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Context

Latitude: 66.2069

Longitude: 248.662

Orbit Number: 27549

Captured: 2008-02-29 09:35

Posted to Web: Fri, 2009-01-23

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (20 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (71 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.01963 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.019773 km/pixel

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