Frost on Dunes

Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems, Posted on: Sunday, 20 March 2005, 10:08 CST Download full size image

This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows dark dunes on a crater floor during the southern spring. Some of the dunes have frost on their south-facing slopes.

Location near: 52.3°S, 326.7°W

Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)

Illumination from: upper left

Season: Southern Spring

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