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This VIS image shows a small portion of Olympia Undae, the largest of the dune fields surrounding the north polar cap. This image was collected during summer and no frost remains on the dunes. The dunes are almost completely covering the surface with very small regions of the underlying surface visible.

Orbit Number: 63361 Latitude: 81.8317 Longitude: 145.937 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-03-26 23:05

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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.