An oblique perspective view of a portion of the south polar Australe Scopuli region on Mars. It features an array of periglacial landforms including exposed layers of ice and dust (truncating the image from bottom left up towards the right), a mixture of bright and dark fans (top half of the image and especially towards the left), and dark patterned terrain (just visible at the top edge of the image).
The image was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.
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[Image description: A perspective view of periglacial features in undulating terrain near the south pole of Mars. An exposed stack of bright and dark layers of ice and dust cuts through the image from bottom left towards the centre right edge. A mass of icy bright and dusty dark fan/arrowhead-like shapes dominate the top and left parts of the image. At top left there is a patch of dark terrain made up of dusty polygon shapes bounded by ice.]