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Wind Effects

May 24, 2010
Located near Amazonis Mensa, this region of Mars has undergone erosion by wind. Long linear hills being created by the wind are called yardangs in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
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Located near Amazonis Mensa, this region of Mars has undergone erosion by wind. Long linear hills being created by the wind are called yardangs.

Orbit Number: 36634 Latitude: -3.42918 Longitude: 216.268 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-03-18 17:08

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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