Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Mamers Vallis

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Context image credit: NASA/Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) Team
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This sinuous channel begins at the edge of Cerulli Crater in northern
Arabia and snakes its way across 1000 km of cratered highlands before
reaching Deuteronilus Mensae at the boundary of the northern lowlands.
The fluid that carved the channel, either lava or water, flowed from the
bottom of this scene to the top. The quasi-streamlined features on the
channel floor may have nothing to do with flow and instead may be due to
a permafrost creep process.

[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