This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express.

It shows a bird’s-eye view of part of a small patch of chaotic terrain within Shalbatana Vallis, a large channel near Mars’s equator.

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