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Dunes

July 23, 2010
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey is an unnamed crater in the far northern lowlands containing a sand sheet with dune forms on its floor. Many craters this close to the pole contain similar dune fields.
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This unnamed crater in the far northern lowlands contains a sand sheet with dune forms on its floor. Many craters this close to the pole contain similar dune fields.

Orbit Number: 37565 Latitude: 71.8842 Longitude: 344.999 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-06-03 10:27

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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