Chaotic terrain, where the landscape is cracked, uneven and jumbled, doesn’t exist on Earth but only on Mars. Such terrain might be linked to past water activity. This image shows a part of the eastern limit of Nia Chaos, located in Candor Chasma. Our goal is to study the placement relations of the layers with adjacent deposits.

ID: ESP_070832_1730
date: 5 September 2021
altitude: 264 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_070832_1730
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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