The Martian bedrock is exposed in this enhanced-colour image of the surface which shows a pit exposing reddish layers. The image was taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Originally published by Cosmos as A glimpse of Martian bedrock
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