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Canyon Junction
April 01, 2012
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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Download a PDF of the Mars as Art Booklet.
Mars as Art (2013)
This false color image shows a region with craters of different ages located at the margin of Acidalia Planitia. This image was collected during the Northern Spring season.
Cratered Acidalia Planitia
Wind shadow and real shadow combine to give a striking image of a comet.
THEMIS Images as Art
Mars is experiencing large regional dust storms over its northern hemisphere during the past week.
The Martian Dust Storm of June 2018
This series of images was taken in visible-wavelength light as the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey scanned across the Martian moon Phobos on Sept. 29, 2017. The apparent motion is due to progr...
Series of Images from THEMIS Scanning Phobos
NASA is advancing the Journey to Mars by starting the conversation about where humans may one day land on the Red Planet.
Mars Exploration Zone Layout Considerations
Researchers estimating the amount of carbon held in the ground at the largest known carbonate-containing deposit on Mars utilized data from three different NASA Mars orbiters.
Multiple Instruments Used for Mars Carbon Estimate
This image is located near the boundary between Syrtis Major and Isidis Planitia. The top of the image shows rough material that has eroded away from the lower portion of the image, revealing an un...
Erosion and what it Reveals
Artist's concept of future humans on Mars.
Artist's concept of future humans on Mars.
This is a Mars Odyssey visible color image of an unnamed crater in western Arcadia Planitia (near 39 degrees N, 179 degrees E). The crater shows a number of interesting internal and external featur...
Western Arcadia Planitia
This computer-generated view based on multiple orbital observations shows Mars' Gale crater as if seen from an aircraft north of the crater.
Oblique view of Gale Crater from the North (Unannotated)
Artist’s concept of Comet Siding Spring approaching Mars, shown with NASA’s orbiters preparing to make science observations of this unique encounter.
NASA's Mars Orbiters Maneuvers as Comet Siding Spring Approaching Mars
Getting to Mars is difficult enough -- staying there is even more challenging. Odyssey met up with Mars on October 24 02:26 UTC (October 23: 7:26 p.m. PDT/10:26 p.m.EDT).
Orbit Insertion
First THEMIS Image of Mars
First THEMIS Image of 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
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft passes above a portion of the planet that is rotating into the sunlight in this artist's concept illustration. The spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since October ...
Odyssey over Martian Sunrise, 3-D (Artist Concept)
This image of a crater in Acidalia Planitia was acquired March 8, 2003, during northern summer.
Acidalia Planitia Crater
This image of Phobos is one product of the first pointing at that Martian moon by the THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. The Sept. 29, 2017, observation also provided information about ...
Martian Moon Phobos Observed by NASA's Odyssey
This image shows two small tributaries, just east of where they join Shalbatana Vallis.
Shalbatana Vallis
A dust storm continues to envelop the Red Planet and Curiosity’s labs are back in action.
Mars Report: July 2018
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
Newly detailed mapping of local variations in Mars' gravitational pull on orbiters (center), combined with topographical mapping of the planet's mountains and valleys (left), yields the best-yet ma...
Using Gravity and Topography to Map Mars' Crustal Thickness
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
This mosaic of day and night infrared THEMIS images shows landslides flowed over 100 kilometers (62 miles) across the floor of Melas Chasma.
mosaic of day and night infrared THEMIS
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith
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