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RE: Mars Odyssey Themis images

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Summertime is coming to the south of Mars, and days are growing longer and warmer. This is not good news, however - and the reason why can be given in a single word: dust.
Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to track from week to week the amount of dust in the Red Planet's atmosphere. THEMIS is a multiband camera that works at 10 infrared wavelengths and five visual ones.
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NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map

A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.
The map was constructed using nearly 21,000 images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System, or THEMIS, a multi-band infrared camera on Odyssey. Researchers at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility in Tempe, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have been compiling the map since THEMIS observations began eight years ago.
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Arizona State University researchers and scientists have created two new features for Google Earth 5.0, the popular online application that lets users tour Earth, the starry sky, and the Red Planet Mars.
The first of the new features lets anyone, anywhere, recommend places on Mars to photograph with ASU's THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. The second new feature shows the most recent infrared images of Mars sent back to Earth from the THEMIS camera.
THEMIS is the Thermal Emission Imaging System, a multiband infrared and visual camera designed at ASU by Dr. Philip Christensen. A Regents' Professor of Geological Sciences in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, Christensen is THEMIS' principal investigator and also director of the Mars Space Flight Facility on the Tempe campus.

"These two features, developed by our staff in cooperation with programmers at Google, will help everyone have a lot more fun exploring the Red Planet. It's public engagement at its best" - Dr. Philip Christensen.

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES March 23-27, 2009

o Complex Surface (Released 23 March 2009)
o South Polar Spring (Released 24 March 2009)
o Candor Chasma (Released 25 March 2009)
o Melas Chasma (Released 26 March 2009)
o Flow Complexity (Released 27 March 2009)

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES March 16-20, 2009

o Channels (Released 16 March 2009)
o Windstreak (Released 17 March 2009)
o Central Peak Crater (Released 18 March 2009)
o Landslide (Released 19 March 2009)
o Bright Dunes (Released 20 March 2009)

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES March 9-13, 2009

o Candor Chasma (Released 09 March 2009)
o Erosion (Released 10 March 2009)
o Spring Storms (Released 11 March 2009)
o Landslide (Released 12 March 2009)
o Dunes and Debris (Released 13 March 2009)

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES March 2-6, 2009

o Landslides (Released 02 March 2009)
o Herschel Dunes (Released 03 March 2009)
o Gigas Sulci (Released 04 March 2009)
o Candor Chasma (Released 05 March 2009)
o Windstreak (Released 06 March 2009)

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES February 16-20, 2009

o Dunes (Released 16 February 2009)
o Volcanic Features (Released 17 February 2009)
o Southern Spring (Released 18 February 2009)
o Northern Plains (Released 19 February 2009)
o South Polar Spring (Released 20 February 2009)

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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES February 9-13, 2009

o Tithonium Chasma (Released 09 February 2009)
o Dark Slope Streaks (Released 10 February 2009)
o Daedalia Planum (Released 11 February 2009)
o Granicus Valles (Released 12 February 2009)
o Cerberus Fossae (Released 13 February 2009)