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PIA22605: Hephaestus Fossae Crater
This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a crater on Hephaestus Fossae. The crater is fairly young, as there is only minimal modification of the crater floor.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey 
 Spacecraft:  2001 Mars Odyssey
 Instrument:  THEMIS 
 Product Size:  1394 x 2644 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Arizona State University 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22605.tif (2.491 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22605.jpg (279.3 kB)  

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Today's VIS image shows a crater on Hephaestus Fossae. The crater is fairly young, as there is only minimal modification of the crater floor. While it appears that the crater sits of top of the channel, the creation of the crater may have also created the channel. The impact event would have caused subsurface heating, melting any subsurface ice in the region which would have created surface flow to form the channel.

Orbit Number: 72447 Latitude: 17.8067 Longitude: 125.698 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2018-04-14 11:35

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:
2018-07-18