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Darwin Crater Dunes

Sept. 9, 2011
Small dunes are located on the floor of Darwin Crater as shown in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
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This VIS image shows some of the layered deposits in Terby Crater.

Orbit Number: 42744 Latitude: -56.6804 Longitude: 341.663 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2011-08-03 19:28

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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