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Today's VIS image shows a different portion of Olympica Fossae from yesterday's image. The east/west alignment is a very uniform width, in this region the fracturing widens as the feature makes a turn to the south.

Orbit Number: 61342 Latitude: 25.6155 Longitude: 247.135 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-10-12 15:56

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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.