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Butte-ification

July 8, 2006
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor shows layered, light-toned exposures of probable sedimentary rock in Iani Chaos on Mars.

8 July 2006
This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image shows layered, light-toned exposures of probable sedimentary rock in Iani Chaos. Near the right (east) edge of the scene are relatively small, remnant buttes and mesas composed of the light-toned rock which makes up the large plateau on the west edge of the image.

Location near: 1.6°S, 18.4°W
Image width: ~3 km (~1.9 mi)
Illumination from: upper left
Season: Southern Autumn

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