Rabe Crater Dunes

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This IR image shows part of the dune field on the floor of Rabe Crater. The dunes are "brighter" than the surrounding material, indicating that they are warmer. In visible wavelength images the dunes are dark, because they are comprised of basaltic sand.

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Context

Image ID:

I51694004 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -41.6772

Longitude: 34.5902

Orbit Number: 51694

Captured: 2013-08-09 10:00

Posted to Web: Tue, 2013-09-24

Instrument: IR

Image Width: 320 pixels (30 km)

Image Height: 3600 pixels (364 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.101368 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.095103 km/pixel

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