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| Keywords: Mars Odyssey All Stars - Noctis Vista DVIDS832452.jpg en West of Valles Marineris lies a checkerboard named Noctis Labyrinthus which formed when the Martian crust stretched and fractured As faults opened they released subsurface ice and water causing the ground to collapse This westward view combines images taken during the period from April 2003 to September 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 13 3 degrees south latitude 263 4 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 504631main_pia13655 2011-04-20 Glenn Research Center https //www dvidshub net/image/832452 832452 2013-02-08 02 31 WASHINGTON D C US PD-USGov Arizona State University Images from DoD uploaded by Fæ | ||||
