Terraced Fan in Aeolis Planum Region (possible True Colors; credits: Lunar Explorer Italia)

This image shows the South-Western Region of a degraded crater’s floor, located near the Equator. The high-standing ridge near the left side of the scene is a terrace that slumped off the crater’s rim (located to the far left of this frame, but out of the image). The bumpy terrain near the bottom of the image is also material that has slumped off the crater rim.

The center of the image contains a terraced fan. The fan emanates from a valley (not pictured, located in the lower part of the scene) that intersects the crater’s south rim, which suggests that the valley might have transported fluid, likely water, into the crater. If this happened, then the fan marks where the flow deposited its sediment.

Mars Local Time: 15:29 (early afternoon)
Coord. (centered): 6,5° South Lat. and 141,2° East Long.
Spacecraft altitude: 266,7 Km (such as about 166,7 miles)
Original image scale range: 26,7 cm/pixel (with 1 x 1 binning) so objects ~80 cm across are resolved
Map projected scale: 25 cm/pixel
Map projection: EQUIRECTANGULAR
Emission Angle: 6,2°
Phase Angle: 63,8°
Solar Incidence Angle: 59° (meaning that the Sun is about 31° above the Local Horizon)
Solar Longitude: 116,8° (Northern Summer)
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Additional process. and coloring: Lunar Explorer Italia