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Crommelin Crater

July 3, 2012
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of the floor of Crommelin Crater. This crater contains a large mound of material that filled a large part of the crater and has been subsequently eroded.
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Today's VIS image shows a portion of the floor of Crommelin Crater. This crater contains a large mound of material that filled a large part of the crater and has been subsequently eroded.

Orbit Number: 45814 Latitude: 4.68823 Longitude: 350.1 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2012-04-12 13:44

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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