All along this section of scarp of a canyon in Kasei Valles, there appears to be a lobe-shaped margin of something (lava? mud? flood sediments?) that flowed into this trough, coated the floor and subsequently drained. What’s the story?

ID: ESP_054926_2025
date: 15 April 2018
altitude: 282 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_054926_2025
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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