Jezero Crater is candidate future landing site that contains sediments deposited by at least three ancient rivers.

This image was targeted to the eastern headlands of the river flowing in from that direction. In addition to complex erosional patterns, there are some good exposures of ancient bedrock, where we can see evidence for faulting and folding .

Written by: Alfred McEwen   (6 April 2016)

This is a stereo pair with ESP_044873_1990 .

More info and image formats at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_044517_1990

Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona