South Polar Ice

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image shows part of the South Polar ice cap. The layering of the ice developed over millions of years, with dust deposits during summer and ice depositing over it during the winter. This image was taken during southern summer.

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Context

Latitude: -85.6743

Longitude: 192.047

Orbit Number: 100235

Captured: 2024-07-19 14:57

Posted to Web: Fri, 2024-11-22

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (12 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (44 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.024502 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0248878 km/pixel

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