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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This portion of NASA Mars Odyssey image covers NASA's Viking 2 landing site (shown with the X). The second landing on Mars took place September 3, 1976 in Utopia Planitia.
PIA04023:
Viking Lander 2 Anniversary
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Perched on the northern rim of the enormous Hellas Basin, Terby Crater, imaged by NASA Mars Odyssey, is host to an impressive range of landforms. As is common for many Martian craters, Terby has been filled with layered material, presumably sediments.
PIA04024:
Terby Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The ejecta blanket of the crater in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft does not resemble the blocky, discontinuous ejecta associated with most fresh craters on Mars.
PIA04025:
Fluidized crater ejecta
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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 2002-12-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This pair of craters seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey just north of the Hellas Basin demonstrate the rugged topography that can result when an impact occurs on the rim of an existing crater.
PIA04027:
Crater Upon Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-17 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft was acquired of Candor Chasma within Valles Marineris and shows the effects of erosion on a sequence of dramatically layered rocks.
PIA04028:
Candor Chasma on Mars, in Color
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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 spacecraft shows Rampart crater in Utopia Planitia, west of NASA's Viking 2 landing site.
PIA04029:
Rampart Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows the dissected interior of a crater in the Cydonia region of Mars. The flat-topped buttes and mesas in the northern portion of the image were once a continuous layer of material that filled the crater.
PIA04030:
Crater in Cydonia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The channels and impact crater rim shown in this NASA Mars Odyssey image provide insight to the forces that have sculpted the surface within the extensive Reull Vallis network.
PIA04031:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Palos Crater, seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, has been suggested as a future landing site for Mars missions because it may contain lake deposits. This crater has a channel called Tinto Vallis, which enters from the south.
PIA04032:
Palos Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of the dust covered plains of eastern Arabia Terra portrays a range of geological time. Three craters at the center of the image capture some of this range.
PIA04033:
Geological Time on Display in Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Located north of Olympus Mons and west of Alba Patera, Acheron Fossae, seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, provides a record of early tectonic activity in the Tharsis region.
PIA04034:
Western Portion of Acheron Fossae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Hills abound in this portion of Mars imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey that shows the Vastitas Borealis region of the high northern plains. These hills are part of Scandia Colles.
PIA04035:
Bumpy Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this region of the Olympus Mons aureole, located to the southwest of the volcano, the surface has been eroded by the wind into linear landforms called yardangs, which can be seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04036:
Yardangs near Olympus Mons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The force of moving water from a flood carved these teardrop-shaped islands within Granicus Valles, imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The orientation of the islands can be used as an indicator of the direction the water flowed.
PIA04037:
Granicus Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Arcadia Planitia, shown in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, occupies a region just north of Amazonis Planitia, one of the brightest and dustiest regions on Mars.
PIA04038:
Arcadia Planitia Dark Splotch
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-16 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey of lava flows around the large scarp of Olympus Mons reveals textures characteristic of the variable surface roughness associated with different lava flows in this region.
PIA04039:
Lava Flows around Olympus Mons
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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 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Much of the northern lowlands of Mars are thought to be relatively young volcanic flows with varying amounts of windblown dust cover. The lack of impact craters in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate the young age of the surface.
PIA04041:
Acidalia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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An isolated mesa east of the Phlegra Montes in northeastern Elysium Planitia has a cracked surface that, combined with its overall shape, gives the appearance of a giant loaf of bread in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04042:
"Bread Loaf" Mesa East of Phlegra Montes
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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 covers part of Tithonium Chasma, which is part of the Valles Marineris system of canyons that stretch for thousands of kilometers.
PIA04043:
Tithonium Chasma
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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With a diameter of roughly 2,000 km (1,243 miles) and a depth of over 7 km (more than 4 miles), the Hellas Basin, shown in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, is the largest impact feature on Mars.
PIA04044:
Floor of Hellas Basin
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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 of the northern plains of Mars shows a surface texture of hundreds of small mounds and numerous small impact craters.
PIA04045:
Late Afternoon Sun
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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 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 shows the cratered highlands of Terra Cimmeria. The image contains several long troughs of Sirenum Fossae running primarily from left to right. These features are parallel to semi-parallel fractures called graben.
PIA04048:
Terra Cimmeria Highlands
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-18 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows several interesting geologic features associated with impact craters on Mars.
PIA04049:
Impact Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Hills abound in this portion of Mars imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft and located in the Vastitas Borealis region of the high northern plains. These hills are part of Scandia Colles.
PIA04054:
Bumpy Terrain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image was taken during winter in the southern hemisphere, meaning that the usually cloudy Hellas Basin is relatively free from clouds.
PIA04055:
Winter in Hellas Basin
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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 covers a region in western Arabia Terra, which contains two interesting craters. The eastern floor of the largest crater seen in most of this image is bumpy and ridged in places and relatively smooth in regions.
PIA04056:
Western Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The Cydonia region on Mars, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, straddles the boundary between the bright, dusty, cratered highlands to the southeast and the dark, relatively dust-free, lowland plains to the west.
PIA04057:
Cydonia Landscape
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Located in Arabia Terra, the crater shown in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft is known as Henry Crater. Like many other craters on Mars, the interior of Henry Crater is filled with a layered deposit.
PIA04058:
Henry Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image of rounded hills and ridges in Arcadia Planitia shows a very intriguing geomorphic feature that may be attributed to the presence of an icy-rock mixture of material.
PIA04059:
Arcadia Planitia
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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 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows parts of the dissected and eroded remnants of an impact crater rim and volcanic material located north of Apollinaris Patera near the southern highlands - northern lowlands dichotomy on Mars.
PIA04061:
Appollinaris Patera
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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 shows deposits in a crater located in Arabia Terra. Arabia is generally dust covered and dark streaks or dust avalanches are present in the crater walls.
PIA04062:
Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Like drippings from a candle, these lava flows on the flank of Olympus Mons volcano, seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, demonstrate how it became the largest volcano in the solar system.
PIA04063:
Olympus Mons Flows
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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 is located near the equator and the prime meridian of Mars in a region called Terra Meridiani. This is a unique area of Mars that displays layers of material that appear to be in the process of being stripped away.
PIA04064:
Terra Meridiani
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This NASA Mars Odyssey image captures a portion of several lava flows in Daedalia Planum southwest of the Arsia Mons shield volcano. Textures characteristic of the variable surface roughness associated with different lava flows in this region are easily s
PIA04065:
Lava Flows of Daedalia Planum
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Reull Vallis, located in Mars' cratered southern hemisphere, flows for over 1,000 km (about 620 miles) toward the Hellas basin. This NASA Mars Odyssey image shows a portion of the channel with its enigmatic lineated floor deposits.
PIA04066:
Reull Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows fractures within the volcanic plains south of Elysium Mons.
PIA04067:
Cerberus Rupes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Coprates Chasma comprises the central portion of the Valles Marineris canyon system complex. This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of the southern wall of Coprates Chasma contains a landslide deposit with dunes over portions of slide.
PIA04068:
Coprates Chasma Landslide
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the summit caldera of Pavonis Mons, the middle of three Tharsis volcanos that form a line southeast of Olympus Mons and northwest of Vallis Marineris.
PIA04069:
Pavonis Mons Summit Caldera
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The style of erosion along the highlands-lowlands boundary of southern Elysium Planitia has produced a strange pattern of troughs that look like the skin of a reptile, as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04070:
Scaly-skinned Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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A large streamlined island in Kasei Vallis, as seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, shows evidence of scour on its surface, probably from floods that preceded the formation of the island.
PIA04071:
Kasei Vallisland
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Ripple bedforms fill large fractures near the southern rim of Holden Crater in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04072:
Holden Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Dark streaks emanating from within impact crater walls show evidence for mass movement of materials in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04073:
Impact crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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These pit-chain features in this NASA Mars Odyssey image of south Noctis Labryinthus are oriented parallel to grabens in the area, suggesting that tensional stresses may have been responsible for their formation.
PIA04074:
Pit-chain in Noctis Labyrinthus
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, bizarre textures cover the surface of eastern Utopia Planitia, where there is a high probability that ground ice has played a role in the formation of this unusual landscape.
PIA04075:
Textures in Utopia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2002-12-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Impact craters in Hecates Tholus, as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, appear to be filled with sediment derived from erosion of the surrounding terrain.
PIA04076:
Hecates Tholus
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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 2003-01-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This pair of infrared images from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the so-called 'face on Mars' landform viewed during both the day and night.
PIA04100:
The So-called "Face on Mars" at Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Islands of older high-standing terrain rise above a sea of relatively young, platy lava flows between two of the largest volcanoes in the solar system in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04078:
A Sea of Lava
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows fractures within the volcanic plains south of Elysium Mons.
PIA04079:
Cerberus Rupes
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This area of Mars imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey shows a wonderful example of relative geologic dating. Ancient lava flows and escarpments are mantled by younger impact ejecta, which was cut by a younger graben and resurfaced by smaller impact craters.
PIA04080:
Resurfaced Mars
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A variegated mottled texture located NW of the volcano Elysium Monsis is readily apparent in the terrain imaged here by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The Hrad Vallis channel system can be seen sauntering across the bumpy landscape of Utopia Planitia.
PIA04081:
Complex and Perplexing Mars
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey, a mantling layer of sediment slumps off the edge of a mesa in Candor Chasma producing a ragged pattern of erosion that hints at the presence of a volatile component mixed in with the sediment.
PIA04082:
Candor Chasma Mesa
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-09 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Erosion of the interior layered deposits of Melas Chasma, part of the huge Valles Marineris canyon system, has produced cliffs with examples of spur and gulley morphology and exposures of finely layered sediments, as seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image.
PIA04083:
Melas Chasma Deposits
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The sinuous channels and streamlined islands at the junction of Shalbatana and Simud Vallis, seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, present an erosional history of the catastrophic floods that scoured the Martian surface hundreds of millions of years ago.
PIA04084:
Shalbatana/Simud Vallis Junction
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The relatively flat floor and terrace walls of this impact crater imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft suggest the crater was partly infilled with sediment and subsequently eroded to its present day form.
PIA04086:
Impact Crater
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At first glance, this NASA Mars Odyssey image showing impact craters and linear ridges and troughs is typical of the southern highlands. However, upon closer examination migrating sand dunes are observed within the troughs.
PIA04087:
Southern Sand Dunes
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The muted terrain of northern Acidalia Planitia, as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, testifies to the fact that the region is heavily mantled with dust.
PIA04088:
Ridges swimming in a sea of dust
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, striations on the floor of this sinuous channel adjacent to Protonilus Mensae look like they result from the flow of lava or perhaps even glacial ice.
PIA04089:
Evidence of flow?
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-22 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The layered deposits in this Valles Marineris canyon imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are heavily eroded by the wind into an impressive array of yardangs and swirling patterns of layers. The origin of the deposits remains a mystery.
PIA04090:
Layered Deposits in Western Candor Chasma
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The impact crater in this NASA Mars Odyssey image is a model illustration of the effects of erosion on Mars. The degraded crater rim and several landslides observed in crater walls are evidence of the mass wasting of materials.
PIA04091:
Erosion Effects
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows crater wall dust avalanches in southern Arabia Terra.
PIA04092:
Dust Avalanches
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-24 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The bizarre patterns on the floor of this crater in Nilosyrtis Mensae imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey defy an easy explanation. It is possible that some form of periglacial process combined with the vaporization of ground ice to form these patterns.
PIA04093:
Concentric Crater Fill
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The ejecta of the impact crater shown in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft appears to have been modified after it was emplaced. This modification may be due to the presence of subsurface ground ice.
PIA04094:
Elysium Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-28 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows old, heavily cratered volcanic terrain in Terra Tyrrhena within the Martian southern highlands.
PIA04095:
Terra Tyrrhena
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey, the late afternoon sun casts a shadow over a rim of Huygens Crater that's 700 meters (nearly 2,300 feet) high.
PIA04096:
Crater Rim
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-01-30 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The floors of these craters imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey contain very interesting and enigmatic materials that may hold shallow subsurface ground ice with varying amounts of a sediment covering (mantle).
PIA04097:
Nilosyrtis Mensae
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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A broad channel in the Deuteronilus Mensae region, shown in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, displays the strange landforms common to the northern mid-latitudes where ground ice likely plays a role in their formation.
PIA04098:
Mamers Valles
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-03 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The large sand sheets and dunes observed in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey are located near the north pole of Mars. Changes in surface albedo across the image are likely due to variable thicknesses of dark sand that covers lighter surfaces.
PIA04099:
Chasma Boreal Dunes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this NASA Mars Odyssey image of eastern Arabia Terra, remnants of a once vast layered terrain are evident as isolated buttes, mesas, and deeply-filled craters.
PIA04400:
Remnants of Lost Geology
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The dust devil streaks observed in this NASA Mars Odyssey image of the Martian northern plains trend over hills, mounds and valleys, giving hints to the dynamic nature in which these streaks are formed.
PIA04401:
Dust Devil Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Eroded, or 'etched' terrain dominates the field of view of this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, acquired over eastern Terra Meridiani. At the bottom of many craters and in other areas, dunes are present.
PIA04402:
Etched Terrain in Terra Meridiani
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-10 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows an impact crater with a rampart ejecta blanket in Arabia Terra.
PIA04403:
Arabia Terra
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Accumulations of thick dust give way down slopes, crater walls, and other steep terrain in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey, leaving the dark streaks that are common in the dusty region of Arabia Terra.
PIA04404:
Arabia Terra Streaks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-12 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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In this NASA Mars Odyssey image of western Acidalia, two craters of similar size dramatically display the effects of geologic activity. The younger one on the left has been left relatively well preserved.
PIA04405:
A Tale of Two Craters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Heavy water ice clouds almost completely obscure the surface in Vastitas Borealis, as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
PIA04406:
Ice Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-14 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This somewhat cloudy image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows a stunning example of layered deposits in Terby crater, just north of the Hellas impact basin.
PIA04407:
Layered Deposits in Terby Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-19 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This visible-light image, taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, indicates that gullies on Martian crater walls may be carved by liquid water melting from remnant snow packs.
PIA04408:
Gullies on Martian Crater (THEMIS)
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The impact crater observed in this NASA Mars Odyssey image taken in Terra Cimmeria suggests sediments have filled the crater due to the flat and smooth nature of the floor compared to rougher surfaces at higher elevations.
PIA04410:
Crater Wall and Floor
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows Granicus Vallis, which is located northwest of the Elysium volcanic complex and may owe its origin to the interaction of volcanic heating and subsurface ground ice.
PIA04411:
Granicus Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-20 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Freedom crater, located in Acidalia Planitia, exhibits a concentric ring pattern in its interior as seen in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, suggesting that there has been some movement of these materials towards the center of the crater.
PIA04412:
Freedom Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The sinuous channel in this NASA Mars Odyssey image begins at the edge of Cerulli Crater in northern Arabia and snakes its way across 1,000 km (621 miles) of cratered highlands before reaching Deuteronilus Mensae at the boundary of the northern lowlands.
PIA04428:
Mamers Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the easternmost end of Valles Marineris, where a rugged, jumbled terrain known as chaos displays a stratigraphy that could be described as precarious.
PIA04429:
Arsinoes Chaos
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The top half of this NASA Mars Odyssey image shows interior layered deposits that have long been recognized in Valles Marineris. Upon close examination, the layers appear to be eroding differently, indicating different levels of competency.
PIA04430:
Valles Marineris - with 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-02-26 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The long sharp-crested features observed in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are named yardangs. Yardangs form by wind erosion and typically lie in the direction of the dominant wind.
PIA04431:
Lycus Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows grooves within channels of Kasei Valles that can be interpreted as evidence for fluvial activity.
PIA04434:
Kasei Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The wind-sculpted yardangs in this scene from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft are part of the Medusae Fossae Formation, a regionally extensive geologic unit that probably was produced from the accumulation of volcanic ash.
PIA04435:
Memnonia Sulci
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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The large crater at the top of this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has several other craters inside of it. Most noticeable are the craters that form a 'chain' on the southern wall of the large crater.
PIA04436:
Crater Chains
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-06 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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With its rim eroded off by catastrophic floods in Tiu Vallis and its strangely angular shape, this 12 km (about 7.5 mile) diameter crater imaged by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft looks vaguely like a stop sign.
PIA04437:
Stop Sign Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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An unusual mix of textures is featured in this image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft of a surface east of the Phlegra Montes. Scabby mounds, commonly occurring around degraded craters, mix with a more muted, knobby terrain.
PIA04438:
Textures in Arcadia Planitia
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-07 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
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Hrad Vallis, seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image, appears to be affecting the local wind patterns. The texture of the terrain just around the valleys is markedly different from that its surroundings.
PIA04439:
Hrad Vallis
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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This gamma ray spectrometer map from NASA's Mars Odyssey of the mid-latitude region of Mars is based on gamma-rays from the element iron, one of the most abundant elements on Mars and Earth. It is responsible for the red color on the surface of Mars.
PIA04253:
Map of Martian Iron at Mid-Latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft produced this gamma ray spectrometer map, which is centered on the north pole of Mars and based on gamma-rays from the element hydrogen. In this region, hydrogen is mainly in the form of water ice.
PIA04254:
Map of Martian Polar Hydrogen
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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The element potassium, shown on this NASA Mars Odyssey gamma ray spectrometer map of the mid-latitude region of Mars, is a naturally radioactive element and is a minor constituent of rocks on the surface of both Mars and Earth.
PIA04255:
Map of Martian Potassium at Mid-Latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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NASA's Mars Odyssey produced this gamma ray spectrometer map of the mid-latitude region of Mars is based on gamma-rays from the element silicon, one of the most abundant elements on the surface of both Mars and Earth.
PIA04256:
Map of Martian Silicon at Mid-Latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 2003-03-13 Mars 2001 Mars Odyssey
Gamma Ray Spectrometer Suite
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Thorium is a naturally radioactive element that exists in rocks and soils in extremely small amounts. The region of highest thorium content, shown in red on this gamma ray spectrometer map from NASA's Mars Odyssey, is in northern Acidalia Planitia.
PIA04257:
Map of Martian Thorium at Mid-Latitudes
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