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April 29, 2014
Two channels are visible in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft . The smaller one near the bottom did not carve as deeply as the larger channel at the top. The channel near the top of the image is near the origin of Mamers Valles.
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Two channels are visible in today's image. The smaller one near the bottom of the image did not carve as deeply as the larger channel at the top of the image. The channel near the top of the image is near the origin of Mamers Valles.

Orbit Number: 54129 Latitude: 30.7146 Longitude: 19.1717 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2014-02-25 20:00

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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