NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Isidis Planitia Central Peak

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The topic for the Image of the Day for the weeks of March 7-18 will be mountains on Mars.

This is an image of a substantial central peak on the floor of a larger crater in Isidis Planitia.

A good diagram showing the structural difference between simple

and complex craters is here: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/science/craterstructure.html

[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