An adjacent observation shows nice fine layering within an upper section of the Medusa Fossae Formation, which is a soft, easily eroded deposit that extends for nearly 1,000 km along the equator of Mars. It looks like the layering may actually be quite continuous laterally.

ID: ESP_075873_1735
date: 3 October 2022
altitude: 267 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_075873_1735
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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