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Keywords: Mars Odyssey All Stars -- Chasma Boreale DVIDS758217.jpg en Chasma Boreale is a long flat-floored valley that cuts deep into Mars' north polar icecap Its walls rise about 1 400 meters 4 600 feet above the floor Where the edge of the ice cap has retreated sheets of sand are emerging that accumulated during earlier ice-free climatic cycles Winds blowing off the ice have pushed loose sand into dunes and driven them down-canyon in a westward direction toward our viewpoint This scene combines images taken during the period from December 2002 to February 2005 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter It is part of a special set of images marking the occasion of Odyssey becoming the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history The pictured location on Mars is 84 9 degrees north latitude 359 1 degrees east longitude 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 Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU NASA Identifier 504682main_pia13659 <br>Unit NASA 2011-04-20 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/758217/mars-odyssey-all-stars-chasma-boreale 758217 2012-10-19 17 39 WASHINGTON DC US PD-USGov Arizona State University Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ
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