This observation overlaps an existing image, but there’s an opportunity to get unique color and some new coverage coordinated with the CRISM instrument. The bright material here in the plains to the south of Louros Valles, a system of sapping channels, also appeared as such in nighttime infrared THEMIS data. Lourous is named after a river in Greece.

ID: ESP_063973_1695
date: 20 March 2020
altitude: 258 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_063973_1695
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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