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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Summer is on Its Way

Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Summer is on Its Way
Image credit: NASA/ JPL/University of Arizona

Uploader comment: These dark sand dunes in the North polar region, basking in the sunshine of late spring, have shed most of their seasonal layer of winter ice. A few bright ice deposits remain sequestered in "cold traps" shadowed from the sun on the poleward-facing side of the dunes.


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