This large platform in Acidalia Planitia contains a group of massifs. These massifs generally appear to be sitting on layered bedrock that may have been islands at one time. Understanding their formation will do much for helping to understand the wetter history of Mars as well as clues to the origins of these various and curiously shaped, tall, singular and grouped massifs.

ID: ESP_074113_2185
date: 19 May 2022
altitude: 299 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_074113_2185
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona
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