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Mars: dune field in an impact crater

author: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin-G. Neukum/Novapix

reference: a-mar09-00057

Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 9 cm

On 22 May 2004 the High-Resolution Stereo Camera onboard the ESA spacecraft Mars Express obtained image data from a crater with a dune field on its floor with a ground resolution of approximately 16.2 metres per pixel. The displayed region is located at the north-western part of the Argyre Planitia crater basin at about 43° southern latitude and 303° eastern longitude.
The diametre of the crater is about 45 km and it is 2 km deep. In the north-eastern part of this crater is a complex dune field, 7 km wide and 12 km long, which consists of dark, possibly basaltic sands.

Keywords for this photo:

2004 - ARGYRE PLANITIA - ASTRONOMY - CRATER - DUNE - IMPACT CRATER - MARS - MARS EXPRESS - PLANET - SAND -