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In this infrared image of the dunes on the floor of Russell Crater, the dunes are brighter than the surround materials. This shows that the dunes are warmer than the nearby rocky material.

Latitude: -54.4765 Longitude: 13.0926 Instrument: IR Captured: 2015-01-21 17:09

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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.