HiPOD: Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Olympia Undae Dune-Ice Monitoring

Olympia Undae Dune-Ice Monitoring

A Song of Ice and Dunes
Actually more like a series! This is part of an acquisition of a sequence of HiRISE images centered on one of the North Polar regions of Mars that showcase a continuum of dune burial processes. Features of interest are dune forms, ripples, polygonal fractures and thin ice mantles.

ID: ESP_069660_2625
date: 6 June 2021
altitude: 318 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_069660_2625
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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Black & white is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km. For full observation details, visit the ID link.