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Amazonis Planitia

Oct. 30, 2013
The small hill in this image aptured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft of Amazonis Planitia has several dark slope streaks, believed to form when down slope movement of rocks or other debris clear off some of the dust cover.
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The small hill in this image of Amazonis Planitia has several dark slope streaks. These features are believed to form when down slope movement of rocks or other debris clear off some of the dust cover, revealing the darker rock material.

Orbit Number: 52100 Latitude: 13.5496 Longitude: 190.27 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2013-09-11 21:00

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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