The Rosalind Franklin rover from the European Space Agency is expected to arrive at Mars in a future year, to study ancient layered bedrock in the Oxia Palus region about 80 kilometers to the northeast of this image location.

This observation (with enhanced-color cutout) is part of a stereo pair of a 1.5 km-wide crater with excellent exposures of the bedrock layers, that will help reconstruct the stratigraphy in the region.

ID: ESP_082685_1970
date: 17 March 2024
altitude: 283 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_082685_1970
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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