This image shows a fresh, 2-kilometer diameter crater on the floor of the much larger Pasteur Crater.

Enhanced color images (from the center swath) can not only reveal more details, but here create a stunning stunning mixture of gold and blue, in an otherwise unremarkable crater. The blueish color of the sand is superficially reminiscent of the Great Blue Hole near Belize City (second slide).

Of course, this isn’t water but sand that has collected. Has some of it blown in from the surrounding terrain?

ID: PSP_007004_2000
date: 24 January 2008
altitude: 284 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/PSP_007004_2000
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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