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Olympica Fossae

July 15, 2016
Located on the extensive lava plains between Olympus Mons and Alba Mons, this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows complex intersecting valleys, which were created by lava flow.
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Located on the extensive lava plains between Olympus Mons and Alba Mons, these complex intersecting valleys were created by lava flow. Volcanic flows occurred both along the surface and in buried lava tubes.

Orbit Number: 63962 Latitude: 24.4677 Longitude: 245.235 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-05-15 10:43

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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