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Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Flooded Crater in Terra Sirenum

By SpaceRef Editor
March 21, 2003
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The floor of this crater displays interesting textures and it appears to have been flooded by some type of material.
It is unclear if this material was fluvially emplaced mud (hyperconcentrated flows) or lava. However, there are no volcanic constructs in the immediate region
and the fact that the crater rim was breached by Labou Vallis to the east (see regional view in image context) suggests that this material may indeed be mudflows.


[Source: ASU THEMIS Science Team]


Note: this THEMIS visual image has not been radiometrically nor geometrically calibrated for this preliminary release. An empirical correction has been performed to remove instrumental effects. A linear shift has been applied in the cross-track and down-track direction to approximate spacecraft and planetary motion. Fully calibrated and geometrically projected images will be released through the Planetary Data System in accordance with Project policies at a later time.


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


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ParameterValue ParameterValue
Latitude-9.8 &nbsp InstrumentVIS
Longitude207.6E (152.4W) &nbsp Resolution (m)19
Image Size (pixels)3043×1237 &nbsp Image Size (km)57.8×23.5

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