Also visible in Context Camera data, the objective of this observation is to examine layers in Hydraotes Chaos. Hydraotes is what geologists label as “chaotic terrain.” It’s recognizable by a jumbled collection of mesas, buttes, and hills, chopped through with valleys which in places look almost patterned. Chaotic terrain occurs in numerous locations on Mars and maybe unique there.

ID: ESP_076382_1825
date: 12 November 2022
altitude: 274 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076382_1825
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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