Often appearing as a candidate landing site, Mawrth Vallis is a topographical wonderland of inverted channels, light-toned rocks and clays. Clay minerals have implications for past wet environments along with the potential to preserve biosignatures. This public request was made to investigate the regional stratigraphy and reasons for the topographic inversion.

ID: ESP_071041_2060
date: 21 September 2021
altitude: 287 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071041_2060
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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