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Crater Dunes

Feb. 1, 2022
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a field of sand dunes on the floor of this unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea.
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A field of sand dunes is visible on the floor of this unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea.

Orbit Number: 88046 Latitude: 26.5457 Longitude: 62.9214 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-10-20 00:25

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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