While this pockmarked terrain looks like it’s on the Moon, it’s in the Deuteronilus Mensae region in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. We see a crater within a crater with an elliptical surrounding depression. Could this formation be the result of the sublimation of icy crater fill?

ID: ESP_064444_2210
date: 25 April 2020
altitude: 298 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_064444_2210
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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