The uneroded rock forms a flat upland at the top of the image. The number of mesas and buttes decreases toward the bottom of the image, but their presence indicates that the rock in which they formed was once more extensive and covered the entire scene.
Small dunes form parallel ridges on the lowland between many of the mesas near the top of the image.
Malin Space Science Systems and the California Institute of Technology built the MOC using spare hardware from the Mars Observer mission.