Delta or fan deposits indicate past water activity. HiRISE can resolve sedimentary characteristics such as layering, stratigraphic relationship to the surrounding geologic setting or distributary channels that cannot be resolved by other camera experiments.

ID: ESP_074848_2040
date: 15 July 2022
altitude: 284 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074848_2040
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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