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The arc shaped feature at the bottom of this VIS image is the remaining rim of a crater. The dunes of Olympia Undae have surrounded the rim and small individual dunes are creeping up the slope of the rim.

Orbit Number: 62485 Latitude: 79.8969 Longitude: 220.255 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-01-14 19:30

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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.