Dark Slope Streaks

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This VIS image shows a portion of two unnamed craters in Terra Sabaea. The smaller crater at the top of the image contains many dark slope streaks. These streaks are thought to have formed by the movement of material down hill, disturbing or removing the brighter surface dust to reveal the darker rocky material below.

Orbit Number: 63682 Latitude: 5.37887 Longitude: 48.2818 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-04-22 09:07

Background Info:

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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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