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Today's VIS image shows part of McMurdo Crater. Located on the margin of the south polar cap, the layering of the ice is visible along the crater rim. McMurdo Crater is name for McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Orbit Number: 84572 Latitude: -84.2613 Longitude: 3.22696 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-01-06 22:46

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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.