South Polar Layers

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows part of the south polar cap. It is now summer in the region and the surface frosts are gone. The layers of ice comprising the cap are now fully visible.

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Context

Image ID:

V66823003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -86.428

Longitude: 177.164

Orbit Number: 66823

Captured: 2017-01-06 02:29

Posted to Web: Wed, 2017-02-22

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (9 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (33 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.009216 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.00921497 km/pixel

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