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Dark Slope Streaks

Feb. 8, 2016
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows dark slope streaks on several small mesas in Amazonis Planitia.
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Today's VIS image shows dark slope streaks on several small mesas in Amazonis Planitia. The streaks mark locations where there has been down slope movement of material, which reduce the dust cover and reveal the darker rock surface.

Orbit Number: 61918 Latitude: 14.3331 Longitude: 190.324 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-11-29 02:18

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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