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Another perspective view of Deuteronilus Mensa - viewed from the west, taken by combining the stereo and colour channels of the High Resolution Stereo Camera. The dark, 2000-metre deep depression visible at the top-left quadrant of the image measures 110 kilometres in diameter north to south.
Deeply incised valleys of depth ranging from 800 to 1200 metres are clearly identifiable in the northeast part of the scene. It is believed that those valleys may have originated from an intense flooding by melted water ice. The water then froze rather quickly and flowed down the slopes of the depression like a glacier.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum).
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