File:PIA21575 - Layers in Galle Crater.jpg

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English: This image shows a layered deposit in Galle Crater, located in the Southern cratered highlands.

The geologic history of Galle Crater is not well constrained, and it contains a variety of features that have been interpreted as fluvial, lacustrine or glacial deposits.

The deposit pictured here contains multiple unconformities (sudden or irregular changes from one deposit to another), indicating periods of erosion and non deposition.

The map is projected here at a scale of 25 centimeters (9.8 inches) per pixel. [The original image scale is 25.7 centimeters (10.1 inches) per pixel (with 1 x 1 binning); objects on the order of 77 centimeters (30.3 inches) across are resolved.] North is up.

This is a stereo pair with PSP_003934_1275.

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.
Date 23 May 2007 (published 31 March 2017)
Source Catalog page · Full-res (JPEG · TIFF)
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Location on Mars51° 57′ 43.2″ S, 29° 57′ 57.6″ W View this and other nearby images on: Google Mapsinfo
This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA21575.

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Credit and attribution belongs to the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) team, NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona

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