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Tithonium and Ius Chasmata False Color

Nov. 28, 2014
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a false color image of the region including both Tithonium and Ius Chasmata, which includes a bluish region in both canyons. This may indicate an atmospheric haze.
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This false color image of the region including both Tithonium and Ius Chasmata includes a bluish region in both canyons. This may indicate an atmospheric haze. The potential haze appears to be more widespread in Ius Chasma.

Orbit Number: 56524 Latitude: -5.5587 Longitude: 273.654 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2014-09-10 22:30

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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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