
Many craters around the south polar cap contain dune fields on their floors. This is one example of such a crater. This image was taken with the 2001 Mars Odyssey THEMIS infrared camera and shows the warm daytime temperature of the dunes.
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NASA ID
PIA11887
Date Created
June 17, 2009
Center
JPL
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