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August 24, 2004
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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.
Meridiani Planum
The floor of this unnamed crater in Aonia Terra has been filled with multiple layers of material.
Layered Fill
A small section of Dao Vallis in shown in this VIS image. Dao Vallis is a major channel that drains into Hellas Planitia
Dao Valles
The dunes in this VIS image are located in Aonia Terra.
Dunes in Aonia Terra
Planum Boreum crater
Planum Boreum crater
Spider Web Pattern
Spider Web Pattern
Color coding in this map of a far-northern site on Mars indicates the change in nighttime ground-surface temperature between summer and fall. This site, like most of high-latitude Mars, has water i...
Depth-to-Ice Map of an Arctic Site on Mars
Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, are seen in this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter. The distance to Deimos from Odyssey during the observation was about 12,222 miles (19,670 kilomet...
Mars Odyssey Observes Martian Moons
This false-color map shows the area within Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6, 2012 EDT) and the location where Curiosity collected its first drill...
Location of John Klein Drill Site
Interact with this 3D model of Mars Odyssey.
Mars Odyssey Orbiter, 3D Model
Ninth-grade, high-school students from Peoria, AZ analyze images of Mars.
Student Teams Work As Real Scientists
This color-coded map indicates the depth to icy layers at a site in southern Mars. The dense, icy layer retains heat better than the looser soil above it, so where the icy layer is closer to the su...
Depth-to-Ice Map of a Southern Mars Site Near Melea Planum
Mars program Chief Engineer Robert Shotwell describes Mars Odyssey's unprecedented view of comet Siding Spring as the comet sweeps by the Red Planet on Oct. 19 and how it will maneuver to take images.
NASA's Mars Odyssey Maneuvers to Image Comet Siding Spring
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.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Arabia Dunes
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter arrived at Mars on Oct. 24, 2001.
Mars Odyssey Orbiter By the Numbers
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.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Ares Vallis
This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows part of the caldera floor of Arsia Mons. Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the Tharsis volcanoes. It is 270 miles in diameter, almost 12 mi...
Investigating Mars: Arsia Mons
Taken on April 24, 2019, this rainbow-colored image shows the Martian moon Phobos, as viewed by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter using its infrared camera, THEMIS. Each color represents a different...
Odyssey Views Phobos: April 24, 2019
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.
Potassium Concentrations on Mars
A small impact crater on Mars named Gratteri, 4.3 miles (6.9 km) wide, lies at the center of large dark streaks.
Mars Impact Crater Gratteri
This unnamed channel drains part of Margaritifer Terra.
Channel in Margaritifer Terra.
This lava channel is part of the Elysium Mons flows.
Lava Channel
Although it is 45 kilometers (28 miles) wide, countless layers of ice and dust have all but buried Udzha Crater.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Udzha Crater
Wind shadow and real shadow combine to give a striking image of a comet.
THEMIS Images as Art
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High View of Melas
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