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Keywords: Mars Odyssey All Stars -- Arabia Dunes DVIDS852080.jpg en Sand dunes shaped like blue-black flames lie next to a central hill within an unnamed 120-kilometer-wide 75-mile-wide crater in eastern Arabia on Mars False colors depict the nature of the ground surface Areas in bluish tints have more fine sand at the surface while redder tints indicate harder sediments and outcrops of rock This scene combines images taken during the period from February 2003 to August 2004 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 26 7 degrees north latitude 63 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 504660main_pia13658 2011-04-20 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/852080 852080 2013-02-08 15 32 WASHINGTON D C US PD-USGov Arizona State University Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ
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