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Today's image shows part of Olympica Fossae. The large depression in the bottom half of the image is part of the fossae itself, and is probably a graben. Graben are formed when a block of material is down dropped between paired faults. In the top portion of the image there are several small channels. Olympica Fossae is located in the Tharsis volcanic region between Olympus Mons and Alba Mons.

Orbit Number: 63176 Latitude: 25.8988 Longitude: 247.55 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-03-11 16:59

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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.