THEMIS Vistas

RUGGED, FINGER-LIKE MESAS REACH south into Terby Crater (170 km wide), which contains sediment layers going back at least 3 billion years in Martian history. It's a record book waiting to be opened. The sediments in the mesas may preserve a record of early Mars when the Red Planet might have held life. This view looks northwest. (A 1.5 MB version of the image is available.) Credit: NASA/JPL/Arizona State University, R. Luk (vertical exaggeration about 2x).

To explore this area further, check out the THEMIS feature article.