Our objective is to examine some very nicely exposed layers in a mesa wall in Aureum Chaos. As the name “chaos” suggests, this terrain is characterized by randomly oriented, large-scale mesas and knobs that are heavily eroded and dominate the area.

ID: ESP_055017_1785
date: 22 April 2018
altitude: 269 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_055017_1785
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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