Geologists love roadcuts because they reveal the bedrock stratigraphy (layering). Until we have highways on Mars, we can get the same information from fresh impact craters.

An enhanced color closeup reveals these layers filling a larger crater, perhaps a combination of lava, impact ejecta, and sediments.

ID: ESP_049990_1635
date: 26 March 2017
altitude: 259 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_049990_1635
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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