Maunder Crater

One of the most interesting features of Maunder Crater is the large trough seen in this image. The crater rim is in the bottom portion of the image and the floor is to the top of the image. The floor of Maunder Crater has been filled by a significant amount of material. At some time after the filling event, the large trough developed. How and why the trough came to be is unknown.

Image information: VIS instrument. Latitude -50.1N, Longitude 2.1E. 17 meter/pixel resolution.

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Note: this THEMIS visual image has not been radiometrically nor geometrically calibrated for this preliminary release. An empirical correction has been performed to remove instrumental effects. A linear shift has been applied in the cross-track and down-track direction to approximate spacecraft and planetary motion. Fully calibrated and geometrically projected images will be released through the Planetary Data System in accordance with Project policies at a later time.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, 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.