HiPOD: Thursday, 22 December 2022
Floor-Fractured Crater in Elysium Planitia

Floor-Fractured Crater in Elysium Planitia

Fractured in Elysium
Researchers suspect this crater’s fractured floor is related to invasive lava, and it resembles weird tilted-facet terrain elsewhere on Mars. A stereo pair along some coverage of the lava outside the crater rim can help us determine how the elevations compare.

ID: ESP_071575_1895
date: 2 November 2021
altitude: 278 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071575_1895
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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Black & white is less than 5 km across; enhanced color is less than 1 km. For full observation details, visit the ID link.