The layers on the floor of this crater may have been deposited in an ancient lake. The enhanced-color cutout shows the layers with different colors and variations in patterned ground, perhaps from drying and shrinkage of muddy sediments.

ID: ESP_068219_1775
date: 14 February 2021
altitude: 268 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_068219_1775
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