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This image from ESA’s Mars Express highlights the region of Terra Sirenum in the southern hemisphere of Mars, within which craters and valleys mark the surface of the Red Planet.
The region inside the bold white box contains the area imaged by Mars Express on 5 April 2022 during orbit 23067. The map indicates that the HRSC image is taken southeast of the Pickering crater, which measures around 110 km in diameter. It is an example of a crater which has been filled with lava.