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THEMIS Art #129

June 20, 2017
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spies what looks like a praying mantis looking back at the spacecraft.
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Do you see what I see? Is that a praying mantis looking at me?

Orbit Number: 53957 Latitude: 33.4229 Longitude: 298.441 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2014-02-11 16:46

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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