The nearby Her Desher Vallis exposes a clay unit in its valley walls. This observation aims to determine if this unit can be visible elsewhere in the region, such as in excavations in nearby craters. This suggestion targets a 2 kilometer-diameter crater southwest of Her Desher that may have possible exposures, as detected in THEMIS and Context Camera data. The Egyptians called Mars “Her Desher,” meaning “the red one.”

ID: ESP_073719_1545
date: 18 April 2022
altitude: 254 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073719_1545
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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