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Wind Erosion

Oct. 31, 2011
Winds have scoured this region of Elysium Planitia, sculpting the surface into the small parallel hills seen in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
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Winds have scoured this region of Elysium Planitia, sculpting the surface into the small parallel hills seen in this VIS image.

Orbit Number: 43113 Latitude: -0.503567 Longitude: 148.928 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2011-09-03 04:11

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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