The North Polar layered deposits comprise a thick stack of icy layers. Part of this image has lingering seasonal frost, which serves to accentuate those layers.

An additional rationale for this observation is to document new activity in scarp erosion.

ID: ESP_053806_2650
date: 18 January 2018
altitude: 319 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_053806_2650
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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