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The linear features in this VIS image are faults. Where depressions are formed bounded by faulting the feature is called a graben. These faults and graben are part of a large region of faulting called Sirenum Fossae.

Orbit Number: 59353 Latitude: -24.4596 Longitude: 220.937 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-05-01 20:03

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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.