NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Apollinaris Patera

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The THEMIS Image of the Day will be exploring the nomenclature of Mars for the next three weeks.

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Apollinaris Patera

• Patera: an irregular crater, or a complex one with

  scalloped edges

• Apollinaris: The Aquae Apollinares is a hot springs

  northwest of Rome in Etruria. This hot springs

  location was known to both the Etruscans and

  the Romans.

Apollonaris Patera is the remains of a caldera located on the

top of an old volcano near Gusev Crater. The image above

is a mosaic of daytime IR frames.

Nomenclature Fact of the Day: On Europa, another moon of Jupiter,

linear features are named for Celtic stone rows, while

ring features are named for Celtic stone circles.

[Source: ASU THEMIS Science Team]

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA’s Office of Space Science, 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.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University