Polar Textures

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

This VIS image of the South Polar cap shows several different surface textures. It appears that the circular depressions (which look like swiss cheese) alter with time, appearing to lose the circular shape as the intervening walls of ice are removed.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V65187006 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-87.0386
276.053
65187
2016-08-24 07:47
Tue, 2016-10-04
VIS
1024 pixels (1 km)
3648 pixels (4 km)
0.001349 km/pixel
0.0012078 km/pixel

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