Not Bland At All

It is often said that the northern lowlands of Mars are bland when compared to the interesting surfaces in the southern highlands and large volcanic complexes. As this VIS image shows, the northern lowlands are complex surfaces with craters of all sizes, layering, dust devil tracks and other erosional features.

Orbit Number: 88157 Latitude: 46.7474 Longitude: 97.2523 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-10-29 03:53

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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.