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Charitum Montes Gullies

Dec. 7, 2022
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of Charitum Montes, the rugged highlands surrounding the southern part of Argyre Planitia.
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Today's VIS image shows part of Charitum Montes, the rugged highlands surrounding the southern part of Argyre Planitia. At the top of the image are several areas of small channels called gullies. These channels are called gullies due to being on a steep slope rather than a flat river plain.

Orbit Number: 91800 Latitude: -56.6004 Longitude: 309.697 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2022-08-25 02:10

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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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