NASA releases images of electric blue dunes on Mars to mark 20 years of Odyssey

These photographs were captured by way of the thermal emission imaging machine device on the odyssey orbiter which has despatched returned more than 1 million images since it commenced circling mars.

The countrywide aeronautics and area administration (nasa) currently shared an image of mars in which the surface of the red planet is visible. Titled ''blue dunes of pink planet'', the picture combines photographs captured between december 2002 and november 2004.

These shots had been captured by means of the thermal emission imaging device tool on the odyssey orbiter which has despatched back greater than 1 million snap shots since it started circling mars.

"a sea of darkish dunes, sculpted by using the wind into lengthy strains, surrounds mars'' northern polar cap and covers an area as huge as texas. Accordingly, the dark, sun-warmed dunes glow with a golden shade."

"on this colour picture, regions with cooler temperatures are recorded in bluer tints, at the same time as warmer functions are depicted in yellows and oranges. As a result, the dark, solar-warmed dunes glow with a golden color. This image covers an area 19 miles (30 kilometers) huge," nasa stated.

Launched on april 7, 2001, nasa''s mars odyssey turned into despatched to the crimson planet to map its composition.

The set of snap shots, clicked at the purple planet at eighty.

Three degrees north range, 172.1 degrees east longitude, were launched to mark the 20 th anniversary of odyssey, the longest-operating mars spacecraft in records.