HiRISE PICTURE OF THE DAY: 7 NOVEMBER 2026
Esker Candidates in Mamers Valles
An esker is a long ridge of sediment deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet. Although glaciers are common on Mars, in the prevailing very cold and dry climate they are thought to be almost exclusively cold-based systems, which do not experience subglacial melt. These candidate eskers could be important to our understanding of non-climatic drivers of meltwater production and, potentially, habitability.