NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) patch.
April 11, 2017
In this image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a group of steeply inclined light-toned layers is bounded above and below by unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another) that indicate a "break" where erosion of pre-existing layers was taking place at a higher rate than deposition of new materials.
The layered deposits in Melas Basin may have been deposited during the growth of a delta complex. This depositional sequence likely represents a period where materials were being deposited on the floor of a lake or running river.
This is a stereo pair with http://www.uahirise.org/PSP_007878_1700
The map is projected here at a scale of 25 centimeters (9.8 inches) per pixel. [The original image scale is 28.9 centimeters (11.4 inches) per pixel (with 1 x 1 binning); objects on the order of 87 centimeters (34.2 inches) across are resolved.] North is up.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO): http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/main/index.html
Image, Text, Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
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