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Just near the center of a large impact crater in the icy Northern Hemisphere of Mars is this collection of dark dunes. The objective for this image is to look for seasonal dune changes and monitor the frost, done in conjunction with the Context Camera that has a larger footprint than HiRISE. As far as a science rationale goes, it doesn’t get much simpler than that!
In the color cutouts, we can see polygonal terrain on the crater’s floor, which is likely the result of the contraction and expansion of subsurface ice.
ID: ESP_060209_2385
date: 31 May 2019
altitude: 308 km
NASA/JPL/UArizona