Periglacial landforms in perspective (2)
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 (top right), dark patterned terrain (top left) and bright and dark fans, which dominate this view.
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.
[Image description: A perspective view of periglacial features in undulating terrain near the south pole of Mars. Densely packed groups of icy bright and dusty dark fan/arrowhead-like shapes dominate the image, their tails streaking out in the direction of the wind. At top left there is a patch of dark terrain made up of dusty polygon shapes bounded by ice. An exposed stack of bright and dark layers of ice and dust are just seen at top right.]
