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Today's VIS image shows part of the floor of Firsoff Crater. Located in Arabia Terra, Firsoff Crater, and the neighboring Crommelin Crater, contain large layered deposits on the crater floor. The north side of the smaller crater at the bottom of the image shows the layering. Wind action has modified the deposit. Firsoff Crater is 90 km in diameter (56 miles).

Orbit Number: 94812 Latitude: 2.77617 Longitude: 350.268 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2023-04-30 02:58

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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.