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Rabe Dunes in IR

Feb. 3, 2015
Sand dunes on the floor of Rabe Crater are brighter in this infrared image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft than the surrounding materials. This is because the sand is warmer than the surrounding rock.
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Sand dunes on the floor of Rabe Crater are brighter in this infrared image than the surrounding materials. This is because the sand is warmer than the surrounding rock.

Orbit Number: 57712 Latitude: -43.7612 Longitude: 34.3755 Instrument: IR Captured: 2014-12-17 17:16

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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