High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum. The region imaged, which lies to the west of Tinto Vallis and Palos crater, is centred at around 3°S and 109°E, and has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel.

The image features craters, lava channels and a valley from which water may have once flowed. Dark wind-blown sediments fill the valleys and the floors of the craters.

This computer-generated perspective view of a network of short valleys feeding Palos crater was created using data from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. Taken during revolution 11497 and centred at around 3°S and 109°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The valley’s U-shaped cross section is indicative of a process called groundwater sapping, whereby volcanic heat has melted subsurface ice, liberating water to the surface and causing the ground around it to collapse. The top left of the image is the periphery of a 100 km-wide crater.

Computer-generated perspective view of the southeastern corner of the volcanic plains of Amenthes Planum, This view was created using data obtained from the High-Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. Imaged during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 and centred at around 3°S and 109°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The image shows a 30 km-wide crater, the north eastern rim of which rests against a smooth volcanic trough that may have once transported fluvial and volcanic materials from Palos crater and Tinto Vallis into Amenthes Planum.

This colour-coded overhead view is based on an ESA Mars Express High-Resolution Stereo Camera digital terrain model of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum, from which the topography of the landscape can be derived. Centred at around 3°S and 109°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The image was taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013. The colour coding emphasises the superposed craters on the large 100 km-wide crater to the left (south) of the image. Also more clearly seen are the various mesa and buttes within the larger 100 km crater. At the bottom of the image is a small river valley that feeds into Palos crater, which may once have hosted a lake. 

The region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum imaged during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express using the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). Data from HRSC’s nadir channel and one stereo channel have been combined to produce this anaglyph 3D image that can be viewed using stereoscopic glasses with red–green or red–blue filters. Centred at around 3°S and 109°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel.