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PIA20774: North Polar Dunes
Multiple dune fields surround the north polar cap. This image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an unnamed region of dunes located between Olympia Undae and Abalos Undae.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey 
 Spacecraft:  2001 Mars Odyssey
 Instrument:  THEMIS 
 Product Size:  600 x 1453 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Arizona State University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA20774.tif (827.3 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA20774.jpg (137.2 kB)  

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Multiple dune fields surround the north polar cap. This unnamed region of dunes is located between Olympia Undae (the largest dune field) and Abalos Undae. This image was acquired during northern summer, when all the frost has sublimated revealing the dune sand.

Orbit Number: 63794 Latitude: 79.7079 Longitude: 245.861 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2016-05-01 15:02

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images.

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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Image Addition Date:
2016-07-06