HiPOD: Wednesday, 1 April 2026
South Polar Residual Cap Monitoring

South Polar Residual Cap Monitoring

In the Maze of the Martian South Pole
This observation comes to us via our public targeting tool HiWish: “We aim to acquire late summer images of carbon dioxide pits to quantify pit growth in the Martian year following a regional dust storm.”

ID: ESP_076727_0925
date: 8 December 2022
altitude: 245 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076727_0925
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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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.