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As with most of the wind eroded material southwest of Olympus Mons and south of Elysium Mons, two directions of winds are recorded. The most recent wind direction appears to be north-northwest/south-southeast and the older direction is close to east-west. Both directions are visible in this image.

Orbit Number: 45797 Latitude: -6.55849 Longitude: 147.694 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2012-04-11 02:15

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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.