PIA22986: Daedalia Planum

January 01, 2019


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Today's VIS image shows a small portion of Daedalia Planum. The lava flows the comprise this large lava plain originated at Arsia Mons, one of the large Tharsis volcanoes.

Orbit Number: 74957 Latitude: -18.6281 Longitude: 239.478 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2018-11-07 04:43

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, 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.

Credits

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

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