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Bahram Vallis

Oct. 19, 2021
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows Bahram Vallis. Bharam Vallis drains from the higher elevations of Lunae Planum into the Chryse Planitia basin.
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Bahram Vallis crosses this VIS image. Bharam Vallis drains from the higher elevations of Lunae Planum into the Chryse Planitia basin. Bahram Vallis is 270km (167 miles) long, with an almost uniform width along most of the channel.

Orbit Number: 86116 Latitude: 20.5906 Longitude: 302.116 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-05-14 02:29

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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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