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Crater Ejecta

March 1, 2011
The ejecta of this unnamed crater in Amazonis Planitia is more resistant than the material around it in this image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey.
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The ejecta of this unnamed crater in Amazonis Planitia is more resistant than the material around it.

Orbit Number: 40003 Latitude: 7.58455 Longitude: 195.999 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2010-12-21 04:44

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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