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Today s VIS image shows a portion of the south polar cap. The visible layers were created over millennia by deposition of winter ice and summer dust. This image was collected at the end of the southern summer season.
Orbit Number: 84988 Latitude: -86.0994 Longitude: 144.46 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2021-02-10 04:50
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
NASA has selected Northern Arizona University assistant research professor Alicia Rutledge as one of only five early-career scientists in the country to receive funding through its Planetary Science Early Career Award program, which supports outstanding early-career individuals.
Rutledge s proposal, Ice, Ice, Rock: Analog Studies in Cold Environments to Understand Past Climate, outlined how the award would enable her to invest in a portable laboratory that she could use to better conduct her research.
“To me, Mars is the uncanny valley of Earth,” said planetary geophysicist Kevin Lewis of Johns Hopkins University. “It’s similar but was shaped by different processes. It feels so unnatural to our terrestrial experience.”
In a 2019 paper in Science, NASA researchers detail how they repurposed sensors used to drive the Curiosity rover and turned them into gravimeters, which measure changes in gravitational pull. That enabled them to measure the subtle tug from rock layers on lower Mount Sharp, which rises 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the base of Gale Crater and which Curiosity has been climbing since 2014. The results? It turns out the density of those rock layers is much lower than expected.
Mars moon Phobos: THEMIS Camera onboard NASA s Mars Odyssey captures first picture and it s amazing
Mars moon Phobos: THEMIS Camera onboard NASA s Mars Odyssey captures first picture and it s amazing
The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Camera On NASA s Mars Odyssey Orbiter Observed Phobos On September 29. Researchers Combined Visible-wavelength And Infrared Data To Produce An Image Colour-coded For Surface Temperatures Of This Moon, Which Has Been Considered For A Potential Future Human-mission Outpost.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Neha Singh | Updated on: 09 Oct 2017, 07:24:37 PM
New Delhi:
NASA s Odyssey orbiter for the first time has taken a look at the Phobos and has successfully produced a colour-coded image. This is one of the longest-lived missions to Mars and has revealed surface temperatures of the Martian moon considered to be a potential future human-mission outpost.