This image covers some of the plains south of Capri Chasma in eastern Valles Marineris.

Where the aeolian (wind-blown) sedimentary cover has been stripped away, we see diverse colors indicative of of a variety of altered minerals formed in Mars’ wetter past.

ID: ESP_045300_1630
date: 26 March 2016
altitude: 261 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_045300_1630
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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