NASA Mars Odyssey THEMIS Image: Meridiani Craters

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This image is from the Meridiani region of Mars. Several craters

at different stages of modification are visible in this image.

At the upper right is a crater with its rim forming a thin circular

ridge surrounding a filled crater floor. Diagonally down from the

first crater is a circular feature which may be a completly

filled crater. On the left side is a crater with visible ejecta

and a partially filled floor. The rim interior wall is almost

completly exposed on this crater.

[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