Happy New Year! An otherworldly image in Richardson Crater to start 2021 off right. Richardson is about 96 kilometers in diameter (60 miles) and hosts lots of defrosting patterns on dunes that are often the result of the sublimation of subsurface carbon dioxide ice.

ID: ESP_056896_1075
date: 15 September 2018
altitude: 249 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_056896_1075
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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