This image shows material almost completely filling an impact crater to the northeast of Hale Crater, perhaps water-rich ejecta from Hale itself.

There is a pattern of fractures at two scales and many small cones. There are lots of strange terrains surrounding Hale Crater, perhaps the youngest impact crater on Mars larger than 100 kilometers in diameter. The body that hit Mars, creating Hale, may have impacted ice-rich ground.

ID: ESP_068549_1465
date: 11 March 2021
altitude: 252 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_068549_1465
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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