PIA24216: Tinto Vallis
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  2001 Mars Odyssey
 Spacecraft:  2001 Mars Odyssey
 Instrument:  THEMIS
 Product Size:  607 x 2711 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Arizona State University
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The wide channel in the center of this VIS image is Tinto Vallis. This northward flowing channel is 180 km (112 miles) long and is located in northern Hesperia Planum. Tinto Vallis arises in the plains of Herperia Planum and empties into Palos Crater. In this image Tinto Vallis doglegs to the north, entering Palos Crater, and then exiting again into the northern lowland of Amenthes Planum.

Orbit Number: 85973 Latitude: -3.08676 Longitude: 110.715 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-05-02 07:46

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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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Image Addition Date:
2021-10-11