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Nili Patera Dunes

Oct. 20, 2010
The individual dunes in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey are moving along a hard surface in Nili Patera.
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The individual dunes in this image are moving along a hard surface in Nili Patera.

Orbit Number: 38822 Latitude: 8.89724 Longitude: 67.4238 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-09-14 22:51

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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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