Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Swiss Cheese Terrain at Planum Australe


This VIS image of the south pole shows a surface with numerous oval depressions. This texture has been described as looking like swiss cheese.

Orbit Number: 56300 Latitude: -86.7211 Longitude: 355.028 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2014-08-23 11:26

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University

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