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NASA's Odyssey orbiter captured a groundbreaking panoramic view of Arsia Mons, a massive volcano on Mars, peeking above the planet's morning clouds, providing new insights into Martian atmospheric dynamics and volcanic history.
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captured an unprecedented image of a towering formation emerging from the Martian clouds in the Tharsis region, providing new insights into Mars' atmospheric dynamics and seasonal changes, with the spacecraft's THEMIS instrument playing a key role in atmospheric studies.
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captured a stunning image of Arsia Mons, a massive volcano on Mars, peeking above morning clouds, providing valuable insights into the planet's atmospheric and surface features, including seasonal cloud variations and water ice deposits.
NASA's Odyssey orbiter, equipped with the THEMIS camera, has captured unprecedented images of Mars, providing a unique perspective similar to that of Earth astronauts from the International Space Station. The mission team had to wait for several years to capture these images as they needed to present a mission plan and objectives to NASA for additional time and funding. The THEMIS camera measures thermal emissions, allowing it to detect different mineral compositions on Mars' surface and analyze the planet's topography. The images reveal temperature variations, craters, and cloud formations, providing valuable scientific insights into Mars' atmosphere and geology.
NASA's Odyssey orbiter captured new images of the Martian horizon using its THEMIS camera, revealing the dusty skies and providing a glimpse of Phobos, one of Mars' mysterious moons. Phobos, with its irregular shape and close orbit to Mars, has raised questions about its composition, internal structure, and origin. Radar detections by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft suggest the presence of unknown structures within Phobos, while high-resolution images from the Mars Global Surveyor revealed a large and unusually shaped boulder known as the Phobos monolith. The new imagery offers unique insights into Phobos and may help determine its true nature, while future missions aim to retrieve samples from Phobos and Deimos to unravel their mysteries.
NASA's Odyssey orbiter has captured a stunning new image of the horizon of Mars, providing a perspective that astronauts visiting the red planet might one day experience. The image, taken from an altitude of about 400 kilometers, allows scientists to compare Mars to Earth by looking at similar photos taken from the International Space Station. The image was captured using Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS), which also revealed the temperature of Mars' clouds and captured a photo of the moon Phobos. Researchers hope to take more images of the Martian horizon to study atmospheric changes with the seasons.