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Where is the Red Velvet crater?

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Where is the Red Velvet crater?

You’re looking at a 4 km-wide crater in Mars’s north polar region of Vastitas Borealis. The crater is partially filled with water ice. The dark material on the crater rim likely consists of volcanic materials such as basalt, giving the Marsian crater its red velvety look. The image was taken Jul. 5, 2021, by the European Space Agency/Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and released by the ESA on Jan. 3, 2022.

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