NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Nighttime IR Channels

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Context image credit: NASA/Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Team
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This night time IR image shows Parana Vallis. Parana Vallis is one of many

channels located in the Martian highlands SE of Eos Chasma (the eastern

end of Valles Marineris). Parana Vallis is likely to have been formed by

fluvial activity.

NOTE: in nighttime images North is to the bottom of the image.

[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