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Small Dunes

Aug. 30, 2011
The small, individual dunes in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located in an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.
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The small, individual dunes in this VIS image are located in an unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.

Orbit Number: 42868 Latitude: -49.3213 Longitude: 7.16552 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2011-08-14 00:25

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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