Layers Exposed in the Walls of an Impact Crater
This image covers most of an impact crater about 6 to 7 kilometers wide. Partway down from the crater rim is a prominent bright layer of bedrock. These layers must correspond to different types of rock that were deposited as nearly flat-lying sheets, perhaps a combination of lava flows and sediments. (In this cutout, North is approximately down.)
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 256 km (159 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_028693_1535
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Layers Exposed in the Walls of an Impact Crater
This image covers most of an impact crater about 6 to 7 kilometers wide. Partway down from the crater rim is a prominent bright layer of bedrock. These layers must correspond to different types of rock that were deposited as nearly flat-lying sheets, perhaps a combination of lava flows and sediments. (In this cutout, North is approximately down.)
Image cutout is less than 5 km (3 mi) across and the spacecraft altitude was 256 km (159 mi). For full observation details including images with scale bars, visit the source link.
www.uahirise.org/ESP_028693_1535
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona