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Olympus Mons

Oct. 15, 2010
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the southeast flank of Olympus Mons. This huge volcano is surrounded by an escarpment, a large cliff at the volcano margin; a landslide lies alongside the escarpment.
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This VIS image shows the southeast flank of Olympus Mons. This huge volcano is surrounded by an escarpment, a large cliff at the volcano margin. This image has a landslide along this escarpment.

Orbit Number: 39041 Latitude: 15.5617 Longitude: 230.202 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-10-02 23:37

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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