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Sand Sheet

Aug. 31, 2012
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the floor of this unnamed crater on Mars in the northern lowlands is partially filled by a sand sheet with surface dune forms.
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The floor of this unnamed crater in the northern lowlands is partial filled by a sand sheet with surface dune forms.

Orbit Number: 46415 Latitude: 61.4899 Longitude: 307.84 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2012-06-01 00:41

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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