Mars Odyssey Orbiter Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)

Mars Odyssey THEMIS VIS Sensor

MSSS fabricated the THEMIS visible imager, which acquires grayscale and color pictures with better than 20 meters per pixel resolution in up to 5 wavelength bands. MSSS President, Michael C. Malin, is a THEMIS science team Co-Investigator.

Launch: 7 April 2001 Mars Orbit Insertion: 24 October 2001 Status: Orbiting, imaging Mars

 

 

 
2001 Mars Odyssey Mission Page at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory THEMIS Home Page at Arizona State University
Image shown above is credited to: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University