Russell Crater Dunes

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows sand dunes located on the floor of Russell Crater. Best known for the huge ridge dune seen here, the floor of Russell Crater contains other smaller dune fields. Russell Crater is located in Noachis Terra and is 135km (83miles) in diameter.

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Context

Latitude: -54.1937

Longitude: 13.2082

Orbit Number: 100402

Captured: 2024-08-02 09:08

Posted to Web: Fri, 2025-01-10

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (17 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (62 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.034236 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0346397 km/pixel

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