HiPOD 3 Mar 2022: A Subtle Scarp South of the Tianwen-1 Landing Site

This observation completes a stereo pair and is targeted to image a subtle scarp. What caused this topographic step? Is it the margin of a flow of wet sediments or lava? Or did the lower portion collapse, perhaps following the eruption of subsurface materials?

More: https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_072579_2050
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