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July 23, 2019
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the north polar cap, as well as sand dunes located on the floor of a polar trough.
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Today's VIS image shows part of the north polar cap, as well as sand dunes located on the floor of a polar trough. The north polar cap is surrounded by numerous dune fields, as well as dunes within many of the troughs near the polar cap margin. This image was collected during northern summer.

Orbit Number: 77622 Latitude: 85.1591 Longitude: 147.496 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2019-06-14 17:22

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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