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North Polar Dunes

March 19, 2012
This image from by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a small portion of the vast region of dunes around the north polar.

Today's VIS image shows a small portion of the vast region of dunes around the north polar.

Orbit Number: 44983 Latitude: 79.5416 Longitude: 217.449 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2012-02-04 03:43

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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