Our goal with this observation is to constrain layer tilts in ancient, possibly rhythmic beds near an area of intensive USGS mapping. Rhythmic beds would be from the Middle Noachian epoch (between 4 to 3 billion years ago), meaning they are the oldest rhythmically bedded sediments on Mars.

ID: ESP_065906_1520
date: 17 August 2020
altitude: 256 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065906_1520
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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