Unusually-looking Butte in Argyre Planitia (Original NASA/MGS/MSSS b/w Frame)

Caption originale:"This MGS-MOC image shows a layered mound, buried under a thin coating of material hard enough to have been cut by shallow fractures, on the floor of the giant Argyre Basin. The material beneath the basin floor is layered; this is an eroded (and then thinly-buried) remnant of some of that layered material".

Location near: 54,2° South Lat. and 46,7° West Long.;
Image width: ~3 Km (~1,9 mi);
Illumination from: upper left.
Season: Southern Summer