Our science goal is to measure the orientations of layers in candidate lake deposits to test out a lake hypothesis. We want to see if the flat crater-bottom deposits are actually lake deposits as opposed to distal alluvial-fan deposits. Luba is about 35 kilometers in diameter and is named for a town in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.

ID: ESP_072479_1615
date: 11 January 2022
altitude: 261 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072479_1615
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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