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Nili Fossae

July 20, 2010
Nili Fossae, a series of tectonic fractures, is the low region on the right side of this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey. A small channel is visible draining into the large tectonic depression.
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Nili Fossae, a series of tectonic fractures, is the low region on the right side of this image. A small channel is visible draining into the large tectonic depression.

Orbit Number: 37499 Latitude: 22.1257 Longitude: 77.1303 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-05-29 00:18

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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