The area surrounding one of the landing ellipses for ESA’s ExoMars rover in Oxia Planum is being investigated by geomorphologists to assess traversibility hazards. The area is also an example for the stratigraphy of the Oxia Planum and serves as a “Rosetta stone” for understanding the order in which the layers in the region are put down.

ID: ESP_072518_1975
date: 14 January 2022
altitude: 283 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072518_1975
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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