
Today's false color image shows an unnamed crater in Acidalia Planitia. The dark blue feature on the crater floor is a mound of sand. The sand is tall enough to cast a shadow, with the sun is coming from the left (west). The texture on the surface of the sand are dune features created by wind action. The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image. Orbit Number: 63180 Latitude: 61.4065 Longitude: 311.579 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-03-12 01:24 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23221
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NASA ID
PIA23221
Date Created
May 17, 2019
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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