This observation targets patchy exposures of light-toned outcrops. These materials may be chloride bearing and if so, this might give us a time frame for the formation of chloride deposits in this region. Erosion appears to have cut through the entirety of the light-toned materials in these outcrops, which should allow probing of the stratigraphic context, thickness and any possible internal layering of these materials.

ID: ESP_066101_1500
date: 2 September 2020
altitude: 253 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_066101_1500
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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