These exquisite layers may actually be very thin, so high resolution can let us examine them in greater detail. Topographic information would be extremely valuable for analyzing the potential paleoclimate record contained in this deposit’s layers. Burroughs is about 104 kilometers in diameter and is named after famed American author Edgar Rice Burroughs.

ID: ESP_057848_1080
date: 28 November 2018
altitude: 249 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_057848_1080
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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