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Olympus Mons Flows

June 5, 2013
The lava flows in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are located on Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.
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The lava flows in this VIS image are located on Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system.

Orbit Number: 49951 Latitude: 19.5453 Longitude: 223.009 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2013-03-19 01:22

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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