A dark, basaltic, sand sheet wraps around exposed bedrock in this observation in Syrtis Major, one of the darkest regions on Mars. Syrtis, once thought to be a plain, is located in the boundary between the northern lowlands and southern highlands of Mars. Our interest is to track changes from an initial picture we acquired in 2009.

ID: ESP_063888_2000
date: 13 March 2020
altitude: 282 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_063888_2000
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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