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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Streamlined channels near Lucus Planum can be seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. These features were formed by catastrophic floods in the Martian past.
PIA04077:
Channels near Lucus Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the eastern portion of a region on Mars called Hesperia Planum. Immediately visible in the image is the dark barchan type dunes that are being blown against the southeast wall of the crater.
PIA04060:
Hesperia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a region called Terra Sirenum in Mars' southern hemisphere named for the Sea of the Sirens from Greek Mythology. This is not a sea, however, but a relatively dusty, high albedo region of Mars.
PIA04047:
Terra Sirenum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey is of a region of Mars called Tempe Terra, which is located between the topographically high Tharsis Region and Acidalia Planitia, a large low albedo region of in the Martian northern hemisphere.
PIA04046:
Tempe Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a location within Semeykin Crater, which is in the Martian northern hemisphere.
PIA04040:
Semeykin Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey covers a portion of Ares Valles, an outflow channel carved into the surface of Mars by ancient catastrophic floods.
PIA04026:
Ares Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Simultaneous infrared and visible images taken byNASA's Mars Odyssey show the Martian south polar cap in late summer. The black areas are at a temperature near -125 degrees Celsius (-193 degrees Fahrenheit) and correspond to solid carbon dioxide ice.
PIA03743:
Mars' South Polar Cap in Summer
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a mosaic of day and night infrared images of Melas Chasma taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The daytime temperatures range from approximately -35 degrees Celsius (-31 degrees Fahrenheit) to -5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit).
PIA03742:
Long Range View of Melas Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a mosaic of day and night infrared images of Melas Chasma taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The daytime temperature images are shown in black and white, superimposed on the Martian topography.
PIA03741:
Melas Chasma, Day and Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the region where NASA's Mars Polar Lander was set to land on December 3, 1999. Unfortunately, communications with the spacecraft were lost and never regained.
PIA04016:
Rest In Peace Mars Polar Lander
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-11-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey is located in Meroe Patera, which is a small region within Syrtis Major Planitia. Syrtis Major is a low-relief shield volcano whose lava flows make up a plateau more than 1,000 km (about 620 miles) across.
PIA04012:
Meroe Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-10-01 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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These images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft show the Becquerel crater in different lights -- visible, daytime infrared and nighttime infrared.
PIA03863:
Odyssey/ Becquerel
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft displays a frosted crater in the Martian northern hemisphere. It was taken during the northern spring, when the CO2 ice cap starts to sublimate and recede.
PIA03912:
Frosted Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-08-05 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The lineations seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image occur in Acidalia Planitia. These fissures, or cracks in the ground, are possibly evidence that there was once subsurface ice or water in the region.
PIA03906:
Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Tantalus Fossae, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is a set of long valleys on the eastern side of Alba Patera. These valleys are referred to as grabens and are formed by extension of the crust and faulting.
PIA03836:
Tantalus Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This positive relief feature in the ancient highlands of Mars, imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, appears to be a heavily eroded volcanic center. The top of the feature appears to be under attack by the erosive forces of the Martian wind.
PIA03837:
Small Volcano in Terra Cimmeria
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is within a region called Lunae Planum, west of NASA's Viking 1 landing site, that marks the transition between the Tharsis rise, a giant volcanic complex, and the northern lowland plains.
PIA03835:
Lunae Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a portion of Aureum Chaos located just south of the Martian equator. This fractured landscape contains canyons and mesas with two large impact craters in the upper left.
PIA03830:
Canyons and Mesas of Aureum Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a classic example of a Martian impact crater with a central peak. Central peaks are common in large, fresh craters on both Mars and the Moon.
PIA03829:
Impact Crater with Peak
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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One of the many branches of the Mangala Vallis channel system is seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The water that likely carved the channels emerged from a huge graben or fracture almost 1000 km to the south.
PIA03827:
Northwestern Branch of Mangala Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The ancient sinuous river channel shown in this image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft was likely carved by water early in Mars history. Auqakuh Valles cuts through a remarkable series of rock layers that were deposited and then subsequently eroded.
PIA03824:
Auqakuh Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The movement pathways of molten rock, or lava, is demonstrated in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a portion of Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in our solar system.
PIA03821:
Southeastern Scarp of Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the transition zone between maze-like troughs of Noctis Labyrinthus and the main Valles Marineris canyon system. This huge system of troughs near the equator of Mars was most likely created by tectonic forces.
PIA03813:
Noctis Labyrinthus/Valles Marineris transition
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a portion of Maunder Crater with a number of interesting features including a series of barchan dunes that are traveling from right to left and gullies.
PIA03812:
Maunder Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Many places on Mars, such as in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a crater superposed on the floor of a larger crater, display scabby, eroded landscapes that commonly are referred to as etched terrain.
PIA03811:
Northern Arabia Etched Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a portion of the summit region of Arsia Mons, one of the four giant volcanoes in the Tharsis region of Mars. This volcano stands more than 20 km above the surrounding plains, and is about 450 km in diameter at its base.
PIA03799:
Arsia Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Utopia Planitia, a large plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars. It is believed that this basin is the result of a large impact.
PIA03796:
Utopia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Splotchy water ice clouds obscure the northern lowland plains in the region where NASA's Viking 2 spacecraft landed in this image by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03795:
Water Ice Clouds over the Northern Plains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-06-04 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The rugged, arcuate rim of the 90 km crater Reuyl dominates this NASA Mars Odyssey image. Reuyl crater is at the southern edge of a region known to be blanketed in thick dust based on its high albedo (brightness) and low thermal inertia values.
PIA03794:
Reuyl Crater Dust Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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At the top right of this NASA Mars Odyssey image, the rim of the caldera of Pavonis Mons, one of four exceptionally large volcanoes in the Tharsis region, is barely visible with steep cliffs formed by the collapse of a portion of the volcano's summit.
PIA03790:
Pavonis Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Cerberus, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is a dark region on Mars that has shrunk down from a continuous length of about 1000 km to roughly three discontinuous spots a few 100 kms in length in less than 20 years.
PIA03789:
Cerberus Wind Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-23 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is from the region of Syrtis Major, which is dominated by a low-relief shield volcano and believed to be an area of vigorous aeolian activity with strong winds in the east-west direction.
PIA03786:
Syrtis Major
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The Cerberus feature, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey, is a dark region at the southeastern edge of the huge Elysium Mons volcanic complex that was visible to early astronomers because it was a distinctive dark spot on a large bright region of Mars.
PIA03776:
Cerberus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Splotchy water ice clouds obscure the surface in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, however, most of Mars was in a relatively clear period when this image was acquired.
PIA03775:
A Cloudy Day on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a portion of a volcano called Alba Patera. This region has many unique valley features that at first glance look much like the patterns formed by rivers and tributaries on Earth, but are actually quite discontinuous.
PIA03774:
Alba Patera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Bosporus Planum, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is located in a region of smooth plains that appear to have formed from lava flows.
PIA03772:
Bosporus Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the intersection of Holden Crater with Uzboi Valles. This region of Mars contains a number of features that could be related to liquid water on the surface in the Martian past.
PIA03771:
Holden Crater/Uzboi Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The so-called 'Face on Mars' can be seen slightly above center and to the right in this NASA Mars Odyssey image. This 3-km long knob was first imaged by NASA's Viking spacecraft in the 1970's and to some resembled a face carved into the rocks of Mars.
PIA03768:
The So-Called "Face on Mars"
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the contrasting morphologies of the relatively rough highland terrain (in the lower portion of the image) and the relatively smooth materials (at top) of the southern rim of the Isidis Planitia basin.
PIA03767:
Southern rim of Isidis Planitia basin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-05-21 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a Martian geologic deposit known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (the raised plateau in the upper two-thirds of the image), a soft, easily eroded deposit that extends for nearly 1,000 km along the equator of Mars.
PIA03766:
Medusae Fossae Formation
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The circular feature seen in blue is the extremely cold martian south polar carbon dioxide ice cap as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03461:
First THEMIS Infrared and Visible Images of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-11-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This thermal infrared image was acquired by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft on October 30, 2001, as the spacecraft orbited Mars on its ninth revolution around the planet.
PIA03459:
First THEMIS Image of Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a global view of the planet Mars compiled with images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA03221:
Still From Odyssey Clip 3
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a global view of the planet Mars created from images by NASA's Mars Odyssey. Color is used to emphasize the Martian topographic, andesite, and basalt compositional differences.
PIA03220:
Still From Odyssey Clip 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 2001-03-27 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image is a single frame from a computer animation, which begins with a view of Mars created with images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft in which color is used to emphasize the Martian topographic, andesite, and basalt compositional differences.
PIA03219:
Still From Odyssey Clip 1
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