South Polar Layers

Aug. 25, 2016

Southern hemisphere spring has arrived at the south polar cap. The ice layers that make up the cap are easily seen in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Southern hemisphere spring has arrived at the south polar cap. The ice layers that make up the cap are easily seen in this VIS image.

Orbit Number: 64531 Latitude: -86.6334 Longitude: 97.7916 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-07-01 06:55

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.

South Polar Layers

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