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Crater

This unnamed crater in Amazonis Planitia has a complex rim. The bottom portion of this image from NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows several parallel rims, while the rim at the top of the image is lobate but not quite round.
PIA20416
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This unnamed crater in Amazonis Planitia has a complex rim. In the bottom of the image there are several parallel rims, while the rim at the top of the image is lobate but not quite round. Such complexities may indicate that the surface where this impact occurred was not homogeneous.

Orbit Number: 62280 Latitude: 10.6103 Longitude: 185.28 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2015-12-28 21:48

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.