Crater Dune

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

Today's VIS image is located in a unnamed crater in Aonia Terra. A sand sheet with surface dune forms and several small individual dunes are visible on the crater floor. Craters act as sand traps and often have sand dunes located on the floor of the crater.

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Context

Latitude: -43.296

Longitude: 299.505

Orbit Number: 100392

Captured: 2024-08-01 13:26

Posted to Web: Mon, 2025-01-06

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034161 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0347917 km/pixel

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