File:PIA21318 - South Polar Layers.jpg
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English: Today's VIS image shows part of the south polar cap. It is now summer in the region and the surface frosts are gone. The layers of ice comprising the cap are now fully visible.
Orbit Number: 66823 Latitude: -86.428 Longitude: 177.164 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2017-01-06 02:29 Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 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. |
| Date | 6 January 2017 (published 22 February 2017) |
| Source | Catalog page · Full-res (JPEG · TIFF) |
| Author | NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU |
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This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA21318. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing. Other languages:
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This media is a product of the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission Credit and attribution belongs to the mission team, if not already specified in the "author" row |
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