NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Olympus Mons In Visible Light

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This is a VIS image of the same location on the flank of

Olympus Mons as the IR images of the past two days. At the

higher resolution of the visible imager it is easy to see

individual lava flows. Note that many flows have a central

channel with raised edges and are fairly narrow, this is

due to the slope of the volcano that the flow is running

down.

[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