Mars
Odyssey
Fans and ribbons of dark sand dunes creep across the floor of Bunge Crater in response to winds blowing from the direction at the top of the picture. The frame is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) wide.
April 1, 2012
This mosaic image of Valles Marineris - colored to resemble the martian surface - comes from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), a visible-light and infrared-sensing camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
April 1, 2012
This image shows two small tributaries, just east of where they join Shalbatana Vallis.
April 1, 2012
Part of a multispectral THEMIS infrared image of Nili Patera caldera on Syrtis Major has been superimposed on a high-resolution THEMIS visual image.
April 1, 2012
When the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, landed on Meridiani Planum in January 2004, it quickly found what it had been sent from Earth to find: evidence of liquid water in the Martian past.
April 1, 2012
A false-color mosaic focuses on one junction in Noctis Labyrinthus where Mars canyons meet to form a depression 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) deep.
April 1, 2012
On the southwest edge of the immense volcanic region of Tharsis, lava from its giant volcanoes flowed down to meet the old cratered landscape of Terra Sirenum.
April 1, 2012
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an unprecedented full decade of observing Mars from orbit.
February 29, 2012
Echus Chasma forms the boundary between the Tharsis volcanoes to the west and Lunae Planum to the east. This region is one of both tectonically fractured rocks (top of image) and volcanic flows (middle and bottom of image). Echus Chasma empties into Kasei Valles.
January 23, 2012
The channels in this VIS image are part of Tyrrhena Fossae on the northern flank of Tyrrhenus Mons.
December 26, 2011
A large sandsheet with surface dune forms is shown in today's image of Aonia Terra.
November 23, 2011
This unnamed channel drains part of Margaritifer Terra.
November 9, 2011
A large mound of sand and dune forms are located on the floor of an unnamed crater south of Rabe Crater in Noachis Terra.
September 16, 2011
This computer-generated view based on multiple orbital observations shows Mars' Gale crater as if seen from an aircraft north of the crater.
July 5, 2011
This computer-generated view based on multiple orbital observations shows Mars' Gale crater as if seen from an aircraft north of the crater.
July 5, 2011
Just as on Earth, volcanism and tectonism are found together on Mars. Here is an example: the ridges and fractures of Claritas Fossae are affecting or perhaps hosting the volcanic flows of Solis Planum.
June 21, 2011
This image shows the context for orbital observations of exposed rocks that had been buried an estimated 5 kilometers (3 miles) deep on Mars.
March 8, 2011
Geological faulting has opened cracks in the Cerberus region that slice through flat plains and mesas alike.
December 9, 2010
Bacolor Crater is a magnificent impact feature about 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide.
December 8, 2010
Although this may look like a hostile alien life form, it's actually a complex line of sand dunes near the northern ice cap of Mars.
December 8, 2010
A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds the northern polar cap covering an area as big as Texas.
December 8, 2010
A vast dune field lies near the northern polar cap of Mars. Seen here in summer, the dunes have partially buried an impact crater about 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) wide.
December 8, 2010
If a meteorite breaks in two shortly before hitting the ground, the typical bowl shape of a single impact crater becomes doubled.
December 8, 2010
Chasma Boreale is a long, flat-floored valley that cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap
December 8, 2010
Sand dunes shaped like blue-black flames lie next to a central hill within an unnamed, 120-kilometer-wide (75-mile-wide) crater in eastern Arabia on Mars.
December 8, 2010
Although it is 45 kilometers (28 miles) wide, countless layers of ice and dust have all but buried Udzha Crater.
December 8, 2010
West of Valles Marineris lies a checkerboard named Noctis Labyrinthus, which formed when the Martian crust stretched and fractured.
December 8, 2010
A false-color mosaic focuses on one junction in Noctis Labyrinthus where canyons meet to form a depression 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) deep.
December 8, 2010
Fans and ribbons of dark sand dunes creep across the floor of Bunge Crater in response to winds blowing from the direction at the top of the picture.
December 8, 2010
In Ares Vallis, teardrop mesas extend like pennants behind impact craters, where the raised rocky rims diverted the floods and protected the ground from erosion.
December 8, 2010
Wind shadow and real shadow combine to give a striking image of a comet.
December 8, 2010
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 15, 2010
The giant, 70-meter-wide antenna at NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Goldstone, Calif., tracks a spacecraft on Nov. 17, 2009.
August 25, 2010
This image shows a 90-mile-wide portion of the giant Valles Marineris canyon system. Landslide debris and gullies in the canyon walls on Mars can be seen at 100 meters (330 feet) per pixel.
July 23, 2010
Valles Marineris, the "Grand Canyon of Mars," sprawls wide enough to reach from Los Angeles to nearly New York City, if it were located on Earth. The red outline box shows the location of a second, full-resolution image.
July 23, 2010
Sixteen seventh-graders at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found the Martian pit feature at the center of the superimposed red square in this image while participating in a program that enables students to use the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
June 17, 2010
This view of an area about 140 kilometers (about 90 miles) wide in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars shows the region around NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
April 30, 2010
Stages in the seasonal disappearance of surface ice from the ground around the Phoenix Mars Lander are visible in these images taken on Feb. 8, 2010, (left) and Feb. 25, 2010, during springtime on northern Mars.
February 23, 2010
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, its backshell and its heatshield are visible within this enhanced-color image of the Phoenix landing site taken on Jan. 6, 2010 by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
January 11, 2010
Continuing our survey of non-crater dune fields brings us to this group of dunes in Aonia Terra. The daytime IR illustrates the warmth of the dune material compared to the surrounding materials.
October 26, 2009
On the southwest edge of the immense volcanic region of Tharsis, lava from its giant volcanoes flowed down to meet the old cratered landscape of Terra Sirenum.
July 22, 2009
Odyssey launched on Boeing's Delta II 7925 that uses nine strap-on solid rocket motors.
July 22, 2009
The image shows a very tall, wide, dish-shaped device that is about three times as wide and as tall as the two-story dome that supports it. Four metal ladderlike extensions form a pyramidal structure topped by a box-like frame used for transmission and reception. The entire array is pointed skyward. In the background is a partly cloudy, blue sky above sagebrush-covered desert hills.
February 16, 2009
This image superimposes Gamma-Ray Spectrometer data from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter onto topographic data from the laser altimeter on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
November 17, 2008
Bright blue marks a deposit of chloride (salt) minerals in the southern highlands of Mars in this false-color image, which highlights mineral composition differences.
March 20, 2008
THEMIS Support for Landing Site Selection
October 18, 2007
