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Today's VIS image shows part of the South Pole. Chasma Australe crosses diagonally through the middle of the image. The layers that comprise the polar cap are visible along the sides of the chasma.

Orbit Number: 76217 Latitude: -85.2706 Longitude: 96.9588 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2019-02-18 23:34

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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.