Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Hebrus Valles update

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About 1000 km west of the massive Elysium volcanic complex, a system of
branching troughs shows a continuum of features that provides clues to
their origin. Within the scene there are fully formed troughs, some
approaching 2 km in depth, as well as shallow, discontinuous pits and
troughs. The presence of the latter landforms suggests that a process
of collapse is responsible for producing the deep and continuous final
form of the troughs.

[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