
It is high summer as NASA 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft captures this image of the South Pole of Mars. The circular surface features may look like swiss cheese, but how they form, coalesce, and disappear is not fully understood.
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NASA ID
PIA14364
Date Created
July 14, 2011
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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