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Today's VIS image shows part of the rim of an unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea. Numerous dark streaks are visible. One theory of how the streaks form suggests that a rock or block of material rolls down the slope, removing or disturbing the surface dust and exposing the darker rock underneath.

Orbit Number: 63059 Latitude: 14.1927 Longitude: 25.6053 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-03-02 01:38

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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.