A view from above: an ancient crater in Arabia Terra

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 a crater lying in Mars’s ancient southern highlands, located just next to a far larger basin named Trouvelot Crater. It shows dark, volcanic deposits covering the crater floor and wall. The crater measures around 30 km across.

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[Image description: A close-up, angled view of a Martian crater. The large circular crater dominates the scene, with steep, shadowed inner walls and a smooth, sandy-looking floor. The surrounding terrain is pale reddish-brown and gently sloping, dotted with a few smaller craters. The lighting highlights the rugged edges of the main crater against the otherwise smooth landscape.]