Inuvik Crater Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is Inuvik Crater. Located near the north polar cap, this crater is 20 km (12 miles) in diameter. Sand dunes dominate the floor of the crater and are migrating up the rim and out onto the plains on the right side of the image.

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Context

Latitude: 78.4191

Longitude: 331.665

Orbit Number: 80424

Captured: 2020-01-31 10:45

Posted to Web: Tue, 2020-04-07

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (19 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (70 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.019336 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0194994 km/pixel

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