The Opportunity rover spent 13 years exploring a small region of Meridiani Planum, which has a rather ordinary appearance.

Other portions of Meridiani are much more interesting, with well-exposed layered bedrock eroded into strange patterns.

ID: ESP_054673_1810
date: 26 March 2018
altitude: 270 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_054673_1810
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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