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Landslide

Sept. 19, 2012
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a landslide occurred on the rim of Fesenkov Crater on Mars, creating the deposit visible in this image.
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A landslide occurred on the rim of Fesenkov Crater, creating the deposit visible in this image.

Orbit Number: 46753 Latitude: 21.5257 Longitude: 272.826 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2012-06-28 20:36

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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