Layers Exposed at Polar Canyon on Mars

by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona/Novapix
Reference: a-mar11-00010
Date: 2007-02-01

This false-color subframe of an image from the HIRISE(High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the north polar layered deposits at top and darker materials at bottom, exposed in a scarp at the head of Chasma Boreale, a large canyon eroded into the layered deposits.

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