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Dust Devil Tracks

April 7, 2015
The faint dark lines in this image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft are caused by dust devils. As the dust devil travels along the surface it scours away the loose surface dust, revealing the darker surface beneath.
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The faint dark lines in this VIS image are caused by dust devils. As the dust devil travels along the surface it scours away the loose surface dust, revealing the darker surface beneath. There are also gullies on the inner rim of this unnamed crater in Noachis Terra.

Orbit Number: 58268 Latitude: -51.7254 Longitude: 17.0688 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-02-01 12:25

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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