Inuvik Crater Dunes

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Today's VIS image is Inuvik Crater. Located near the north polar cap, this crater is 20 km (12 miles) in diameter. Sand dunes dominate the floor of the crater and are migrating up the rim and out onto the plains on the right side of the image.

Orbit Number: 80424 Latitude: 78.4191 Longitude: 331.665 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2020-01-31 10:45

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) was developed by Arizona State University, Tempe, in collaboration with Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing. The THEMIS investigation is led by Dr. Philip Christensen at Arizona State University. Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, is the prime contractor for the Odyssey project, and developed and built the orbiter. Mission operations are conducted jointly from Lockheed Martin and from JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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