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Crommelin Crater - False Color

Dec. 17, 2019
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the interior of Crommelin Crater.
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This false color image shows part of the interior of Crommelin Crater. This crater contains a large mound of layered materials on the crater floor. This material was deposited after the crater formed. Crommelin Crater is one a several craters in the vicinity that contain large mounds of material on the crater floor. Crommelin Crater is 114 km (71 miles) in diameter and is located near Meridiani Planum.

The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image.

Orbit Number: 63709 Latitude: 4.84227 Longitude: 349.184 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-04-24 14:29

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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