A Context Camera image reveals a trench within a depression to the west of Elysium Mons. The visible erosion within the field of view suggests fluvial processes. Our picture can also help with determining subsurface composition. Hyblaeus Dorsa is a series of northeast-trending scarps and ridges that form a topographic divide between Utopia and Elysium Planitiae.

ID: ESP_052941_2040
date: 11 November 2017
altitude: 287 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_052941_2040
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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