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If you find room to be absolutely amazing like me, get a bunch of these. To celebrate the Odyssey spacecraft’s 20th anniversary around Mars (yes, it’s been there for 20 years), NASA has released a breathtaking image of a sea of dunes it has discovered on the planet.
The false color image (where color represents the temperature) was taken using the imaging system of the Odyssey thermal emission and was made using a series of images that took about two years to capture. If you’re wondering what you’re looking at, the image shows a sea-sized ocean in Texas with wind dunes around the northern northern cape of Mars. The cool temperatures are depicted in a bluer hue and the warm temperatures are yellow and orange – can you see the ice?
The photo was monumental to help scientists discover where water is stored on the red planet and has since been confirmed by the Phoenixlander to be there. The image was a major step in understanding the planet’s water cycles and further supports that Mars could be a living planet at some point.
Image source: NASA