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Dr. Bill Boynton
August 24, 2004
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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.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Bunge Crater Dunes
Ninth-grade, high-school students from Peoria, AZ analyze images of Mars.
Student Teams Work As Real Scientists
Geological faulting has opened cracks in the Cerberus region that slice through flat plains and mesas alike.
Mars Odyssey All Stars: Cerberus Crack
This movie begins with an animation (artist's rendering) of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft above Mars. The scene zooms into an "X-ray" view of the spacecraft, revealing the High Reso...
Mars Orbiter Observes Comet Siding Spring
The dunes and dust devil tracks in this VIS image are located on the plains of Planum Chronium.
Dunes and dust devil tracks in Planum Chronium
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.
Bunge Crater Dunes
A small basin (center foreground) lies below the southern rim of Melas Chasma, part of Valles Marineris.
Melas Chasma's Ancient Lake
Six views of the Martian moon Phobos captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter as of March 2020. The orbiter's THEMIS camera is used to measure temperature variations that suggest what kind of material th...
Odyssey's Six Views of Phobos
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 Pl...
Volcanism & Tectonism
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter is depicted in this illustration.
Artist's Concept of Mars Odyssey
This image captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a section of Nanedi Valles, located in Xanthe Terra.
Nanedi Valles
This rainbow-colored map shows underground water ice on Mars. Cool colors are closer to the surface than warm colors; black zones indicate areas where a spacecraft would sink into fine dust; the ou...
A Water Ice Map for Mars
This THEMIS image of rounded hills and ridges in Arcadia Planitia shows a very intriguing geomorphic feature that may be attributed to the presence of an icy-rock mixture of material. Smooth aprons...
Arcadia Planitia
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith
Snow falls and ice and frost form on Mars, too. NASA's spacecraft on and orbiting the Red Planet reveal the similarities to and differences from how we experience winter on Earth.
Mars Report: Winter Wonderland on Mars
Five decades of successful NASA missions to the Red Planet, 1965-2015.
50 Years of Mars Exploration
Large fractures have formed 'steps' in this region of Tempe Terra.
Tempe Terra
At the time this video was released, the Odyssey team had successfully completed the third trajectory correction maneuver to adjust the spacecraft's flightpath toward its final aimpoint for entry i...
Challenges of Getting to Mars: Interplanetary Cruise
Download a PDF of the Explore Mars Sticker.
Explore Mars Sticker
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.
Canyon Junction
A group of small, unnamed craters in the martian southern hemisphere is the first site captured by a group of middle school students who are operating the camera system onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey ...
Students participating in the Mars Student Imaging Project
Odyssey launched on Boeing's Delta II 7925 that uses nine strap-on solid rocket motors.
Odyssey Launches Boeing's Delta II 7925
A large mound of sand and dune forms are located on the floor of an unnamed crater south of Rabe Crater in Noachis Terra.
Rabe Crater in Noachis Terra
Mars radiation levels are two to three times higher than around Earth.
Mars radiation levels
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an unprecedented full decade of observing Mars from orbit.
Tenth Anniversary Image from Camera on NASA Mars Orbiter
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