NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Olympia Undae

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

Olympia Undae

• Undae: dunes
• Olympia: The most ancient sanctuary of Greece, home

  of the Olympic Games. Olympia is located in

  the valley of Alpheias in the western region

  of the Peloponnese.

This VIS image shows a small portion of the extensive

region of the north polar covered by sand dunes.

Nomenclature Fact of the Day: Assistance in producing this

three week theme on planetary nomenclature was provided

by Jenny Blue of the USGS in Flagstaff Arizona. THANKS JENNY!

[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