These massifs appear to be sitting on layered bedrock which may have been islands at one time. Understanding their formation will do much for helping to understand the wetter history of Mars as well as clues to the origins of these various and curiously shaped tall singular and grouped massifs.

ID: ESP_076381_2190
date: 11 November 2022
altitude: 299 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076381_2190
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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