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Gullies

March 4, 2013
Several gullies of different sizes in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located on the southern rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria.
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Several gullies of different sizes are located on the southern rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Cimmeria. The gullies form on the north-facing rim which gets more sun related warming than the south-facing rim.

Orbit Number: 49393 Latitude: -48.25 Longitude: 129.612 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2013-02-01 01:39

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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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