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Crater Rim Channels

March 3, 2014
Numerous channels dissect the rim of this large crater located on Acheron Fossae as seen by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
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Numerous channels dissect the rim of this large crater located on Acheron Fossae.

Orbit Number: 53585 Latitude: 39.3278 Longitude: 224.156 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2014-01-12 02:02

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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