This image can help test a hypothesis: did sulfate layers once fill the canyons of Valles Marineris and did those sulfate deposits grow as domes? Our image can be used to create a digital terrain model where the layers are well-exposed over a wide range of elevations and whose orientations can also be measured.

ID: ESP_065898_1720
date: 17 August 2020
altitude: 264 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065898_1720
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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