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Mega-Gully

Dec. 13, 2016
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows one of the mega sized gullies located on the plains just south of Ius Chasma.
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Today's VIS image shows one of the mega sized gullies located on the plains just south of Ius Chasma. This gully empties from Sinai Planum into the chasma.

Orbit Number: 65907 Latitude: -8.73127 Longitude: 275.005 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-10-22 15:44

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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