# PIA26203-Mars-HorizonViews-OdysseyTHEMIS-20230509

PIA26203: Odyssey's THEMIS Views the Horizon of Mars

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26203

Click here for Figure A animation (.mp4, 16 MB)

Click here for Figure B animation (.gif, 275 KB)

This view of Mars was captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter using its Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS, camera. This image is a false color composite, made by combining three channels of infrared data that highlight water-ice clouds and dust in the atmosphere. This panorama was one of 10 captured on May 9, 2023, from an altitude of roughly 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Martian surface – about the same altitude at which the International Space Station flies over Earth.

Figure A is a video that pans across four of the 10 panoramas placed side by side, with notable regions of Mars labeled: eastern Hellas basin, Arcadia Planitia, Utopia Planitia, Nili Fossae, and Syrtis Major. The images are in black and white, including the panorama seen above where three color channels were combined.

Figure B is an animated series of images showing Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, moving across the sky. Phobos was also imaged as Odyssey was pointed towards the horizon.

The 10 panoramas of the Martian horizon were taken to capture a one-of-a-kind view of the Martian atmosphere as Odyssey circled the planet during its two-hour orbit. The reason why the view is so uncommon is because of the challenges involved in creating it. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
- Genres: Science, Space
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- Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
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