Most late-stage lake deposits are low elevation. Is this candidate lake deposit in an impact crater on the Tharsis plateau an exception? In Context Camera data, it looks like confirmed lake deposits. Important if so, because high-elevation lake deposits constrain climate models more stringently than low-elevation lake deposits.

ID: ESP_076898_1660
date: 22 December 2022
altitude: 253 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_076898_1660
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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