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Today's VIS image shows a section of Labou Vallis. Labou Vallis is located south of Eumenides Dorsum and is 258 kilometers (160 miles) long. The 'tail' of the tear-dropped shaped island in the center of the channel points downstream, indicating the liquid flow was towards the top of this image.

Orbit Number: 90200 Latitude: -7.83684 Longitude: 204.926 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2022-04-15 08:56

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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.