Southern Dunes

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Today’s VIS image shows a field on dunes on the floor of an unnamed crater in southern Terra Sirenum. The tracks of dust devils can be seen elsewhere on the crater floor, as well as on the crater rim.

Orbit Number: 84004 Latitude: -61.0073 Longitude: 216.778 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2020-11-21 04:14

Background Info:

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.

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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