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Olympus Mons Lava Flows

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows the region where flank flows from Olympus Mons meet the surrounding lava plains.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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This VIS image shows the region where flank flows from Olympus Mons (top of image) meet the surrounding lava plains.

Orbit Number: 80678 Latitude: 12.5468 Longitude: 223.171 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2020-02-21 08:19

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.