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Terra Cimmeria

April 16, 2015
This image of Terra Cimmeria captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows two channels intersecting to become one larger channel.
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Today's VIS image of Terra Cimmeria shows two channels intersecting to become one larger channel.

Orbit Number: 58450 Latitude: -42.1886 Longitude: 165.142 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-02-16 12:08

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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