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Mr. Peanut

May 24, 2021
This image acquired on January 24, 2021 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows the south polar residual cap constantly changing as carbon dioxide sublimates from steep slopes, enlarging pits, and condensing on flat areas, filling pits.
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The south polar residual cap is constantly changing as carbon dioxide sublimates from steep slopes, enlarging pits, and condenses on flat areas, filling pits.

Sometimes the strange landscape produces something that looks familiar, like the mascot of a certain peanut company, who recently died in a commercial, and was "creamated" according to "Saturday Night Live."

At least, he still has Mars.

The map is projected here at a scale of 50 centimeters (19.7 inches) per pixel. (The original image scale is 49.0 centimeters [19.3 inches] per pixel [with 2 x 2 binning]; objects on the order of 147 centimeters [57.9 inches] across are resolved.) North is up.

The University of Arizona, in Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., in Boulder, Colorado. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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