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Wind Erosion

Jan. 25, 2011
The pits at the top of this image are created by the action of the wind in this image captured by NASA's Mars Odyssey.
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The pits at the top of this VIS image are created by the action of the wind.

Orbit Number: 39854 Latitude: -1.35014 Longitude: 202.152 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-12-08 20:22

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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