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This image, collected near the end of the southern spring season, from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows part of the south polar cap.
PIA22846
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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This VIS image shows part of the south polar cap. This image was collected near the end of the southern spring season.

Orbit Number: 74454 Latitude: -86.2332 Longitude: 299.532 Instrument: VIS Captured: 2018-09-26 18:47

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.