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Lyot Crater Dunes

Aug. 9, 2019
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Lyot Crater, a large, complex crater in the northern lowlands of Vastitas Borealis.
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Lyot Crater is a large, complex crater in the northern lowlands of Vastitas Borealis. This image is located along the southern rim of the crater and shows part of the dune field located on the floor of the crater.

Orbit Number: 77827 Latitude: 49.3402 Longitude: 29.8073 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2019-07-01 14:19

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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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