NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Reull Vallis

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This week we will be examining images of Reull Vallis. Reull
Vallis is located in the Martian southern highlands, just east
of Hellas Basin. This extensive channel system records an
interesting fluvial and mass wasting geologic history of the
area. In many images show interesting patterns of mass
wasted material in the bottom of the channel. For more
information on the geology of Reull Vallis see
http://viking.eps.pitt.edu/public/IcarusPub/Geol_RVR_Icarus.html.

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