Surficial units |
Aeolian bedforms, large |
Ab-l |
Surficial debris cover |
Light-toned, parallel, and straight-crested bedforms ~ 10s to 100s of meters in length and ~ 1–10s of meters in wavelength |
Transverse aeolian ridges |
77.379, 18.483 and 77.337, 18.433 |
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Aeolian bedforms, small |
Ab-s |
Surficial debris cover |
Dark-toned, sub-parallel, straight-crested bedforms ~ 1–10s of meters in length and 1 to several meters in wavelength. Reticulate patterns are common |
Aeolian wind ripples |
77.421, 18.427 |
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Undifferentiated smooth |
Us |
– |
Widespread smooth, dark-toned deposits that drape topography |
Unconsolidated mantling deposits variably composed of dust, sand, pebbles, cobbles |
77.431, 18.402 |
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Talus |
T |
Surficial debris cover |
Boulder accumulations on slopes and below eroded outcrops |
Blocks eroded from the bedrock via physical weathering |
77.429, 18.497 |
Jezero crater floor |
Crater floor fractured 1 |
Cf-f-1 |
Light-toned floor unit |
Massive, light-toned fractured and blocky bedrock exposed on the crater floor below −2530 m elevation |
Unspecific tephra, airfall, aeolian, or lacustrine deposit |
77.413, 18.410 |
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Crater floor fractured 2 |
Cf-f-2 |
Light-toned floor unit |
Light-toned, rough, and fractured bedrock that crops out between −2530 and −2440 m elevation |
Unspecified tephra, airfall, aeolian, or lacustrine deposit |
77.447, 18.560 |
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Crater floor fractured rough |
Cf-fr |
Volcanic floor unit |
Light- to medium-toned, rough, boulder-producing unit that is highly crater-retaining. Polygonal fracture networks are common |
Unspecified tephra, airfall, aeolian, or lacustrine deposit |
77.467, 18.340 |
Jezero crater margin |
Margin fractured |
M-f |
Mottled terrain |
Light-toned fractured bedrock inside Jezero crater between the elevation ranges of −2440 m and −2190 m south of the Neretva Vallis and −2440 m and −2240 m north of Neretva Vallis. Forms a low relief, less blocky expression, and blocky, ridge-forming outcrops |
Unspecified tephra or marginal lacustrine deposit |
77.335, 18.476 |
Jezero crater delta |
Delta blocky |
D-bl |
Western fan deposit |
Intermediate-toned blocky deposit that forms steep-sided, boulder-shedding elongate ridges on the delta’s upper surface |
Coarse-grained fluvial channel deposits |
77.385, 18.501 |
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Delta thinly layered |
D-tnl |
Western fan deposit |
Stratified sequence of < 1 m thick alternating light and dark planar bands. Locally deformed |
Fine-grained prodelta or distal lacustrine deposits |
77.350, 18.451 |
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Delta thickly layered |
D-tkl |
Western fan deposit |
Light-toned, resistant strata up to several meters thick |
Channel lobes at the toe of the delta slope or delta plain alluvial or floodplain deposits |
77.417, 18.524 |
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Delta truncated curvilinear layered |
D-tcl |
Western fan deposit |
Curvilinear, decimeter-scale sets of alternating light- and dark-toned layers that truncate against one another over length-scales of tens of meters |
Laterally accreting point bars, or subaqueous channel-levee complexes |
77.387, 18.472 |
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Delta layered rough |
D-lr |
Northern fan deposit |
Light-toned, parallel m-thick stratified deposit northeast of the western delta |
Distal deltaic deposits |
77.481, 18.583 |
Jezero crater rim and beyond |
Crater rim blocky |
Cr-bl |
Crater rim and wall material |
Intermediate-toned unit that forms resistant high-standing ridges that erode into boulders |
Pre-Jezero/impact basement bedrock of unspecified sedimentary or volcanic origin |
77.292, 18.467 |
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Crater rim breccia |
Cr-br |
Crater rim and wall material |
Brecciated and disrupted light- and intermediate-toned bedrock exposed on the Nili Planum-facing slope of the Jezero crater rim |
Syn-Isidis or syn-Jezero impact breccia |
77.269, 18.445 |
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Crater rim layered |
Cr-l |
Crater rim and wall material |
Light-toned stratified and polygonally fractured unit that is occasionally faulted and disrupted |
Pre-Jezero/impact basement bedrock of unspecified sedimentary or volcanic origin |
77.260, 18.459 |
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Crater rim rough |
Cr-r |
Pitted capping unit |
Light-toned unit characterized by high crater retention, a rough texture, and polygonal fractures |
Unspecified clastic sedimentary or explosive volcanic deposit |
77.275, 18.386 |
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Neretva Vallis layered |
NV-l |
– |
Light- to intermediate-toned layered outcrops exhibiting m-scale polygonal fractures |
Fluvial deposits |
77.256, 18.509 |
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Nili Planum fractured |
NP-f |
Mottled terrain; Eroded mottled terrain |
Light-toned fractured outcrop occurring above –2240 m elevation north of Neretva Vallis and above –2190 m elevation south of Neretva Vallis |
Unspecified tephra, airfall, or aeolian deposit |
77.274, 18.537 |