Landslide!

This image shows a fresh (well-preserved) landslide scarp and rocky deposit off the edge of a streamlined mesa in Simud Valles, a giant outflow channel carved by ancient floods.

The stereo images can be used to measure the topography, which in turn constrains models for the strength of the mesa’s bedrock. (Image is less than 5 km across.)

ID: ESP_050033_1920
date: 30 March 2017
altitude: 280 km

https://uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_050033_1920
NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
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