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Brashear Crater Dunes

June 23, 2011
The dunes seen in this view from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located on the floor of Brashear Crater.
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The dunes in today's VIS image are located on the floor of Brashear Crater.

Orbit Number: 41874 Latitude: -53.3087 Longitude: 240.154 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2011-05-24 04:24

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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