Did you know you could download the Google Earth Plugin to suggest an image without leaving your browser?

Find your own place on the Red Planet

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Download Google Earth 5 and get a Mars Suggest account

Get the latest version of Google Earth featuring Mars, then sign up for a Mars Suggest account to save your picks.

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Suggest up to ten places each week to image

Your observation suggestions go to scientists targeting the
THEMIS camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

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Get your images

If any of your suggested areas match those chosen by mission scientists, we'll email you links to the photos. You may be the first human to see that spot on Mars in so much detail!

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The tracks on the surface of the planet represent areas where the THEMIS camera aboard the Mars Odyssey spacecraft will be able to image in the next week. Click on a track to start saving suggestions.

You may submit up to 10 suggestions each week.

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Most Suggested Places

Map showing density of successful image suggestions
This map shows the areas where the THEMIS camera has taken images matching suggestions from the public.

Less active areas are shown with purples and blues, more active areas are greens, yellows and whites.