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Eos Chaos

April 27, 2011
The floor of Eos Chasma is composed of thousands of small hills; this type of terrain is called 'chaos.' This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey and shows a small portion of Eos Chaos.
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The floor of Eos Chasma is composed of thousands of small hills. This type of terrain is called "chaos." Today's VIS image shows a small portion of Eos Chaos.

Orbit Number: 41098 Latitude: -43.6804 Longitude: 312.588 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2011-03-21 06:44

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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