This is a possible key location for understanding the scallop-hosting mantle(s) in Utopia Planitia. Unusually, it looks like there might be two distinct units of the stuff here, since there's a higher-standing mass with larger-than-normal north-south fissures. This might be important to show that there were two (or more) phases of mantling here.

ID: ESP_071815_2265
date: 21 November 2021
altitude: 301 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_071815_2265
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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