One of a few “scaly-looking” inselbergs within regional platy-ridged flows in Elysium Planitia. This inselberg has a broken and blocky appearance with some of the blocks being tilted. Could this be the remnant of a once extensive mantling deposit? An inselberg is an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly from a plain.

ID: ESP_018036_1880
date: 1 June 2010
altitude: 276 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_018036_1880
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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