Our science goal for this observation is to document stratigraphic relationships between chaos blocks and adjacent geologic units. With a stereo pair, we can create a digital terrain model to interpret superposition relationships in this scene. The general shape of “chaotic terrain” is steep-sided mesas in close proximity. In planetary nomenclature, the descriptor term “chaos” means “distinctive area of broken terrain.”

ID: ESP_073969_1860
date: 8 May 2022
altitude: 274 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_073969_1860
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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