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This image is based on a request to retarget a site to create a stereo pair. Adjacent images to the east show a series of buttes with very little stratigraphic overlap. The region in this observation have long sequences of strata potentially recording the full paleo-stratigraphic column that can help us learn more about the ancient environment and how it formed.


Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona https://www.uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_065856_1890
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