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THEMIS Art #124

June 13, 2017
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft spies what looks like a little beetle at the top of this image.
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Do you see what I see? Is that a little beetle at the top of the image?

Orbit Number: 51233 Latitude: -10.9694 Longitude: 8.55358 Instrument: IR Captured: 2013-07-02 11:26

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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