ESP_011844_1855 - icy/muddy terrain and flow features possibly

HiRISE ESP_011844_1855 is quite an interesting observation featering a portion of southwest Arabia Terra (one of the areas with regional methane and water vapor concentrations). The lower plains showing some nice small scale fresh rampart craters suggesting ice or even mud very near the surface. Also there seems to be some horizontal flow like features in the second cutout among another rampart crater.

50% zoom RGB (illumination from right to left - south up):

50% zoom RGB (illumination from right to left - south up):

Maybe this observation is worth a closer inspection

A little off topic, but I was wondering if the geological features in the lower image are inselburgs. And why they are so evenly spaced, whatever they are. All of them seem to have a very sharp peak, and the distribution is geometric. Any ideas here?

John, I think these are some kind of buttes or maybe small Inselberge (Inselbergs) - propably left there after some kind of fluvial action shaped this area. What kind of geometry do you mean? In the following broader context views they seem to be distributed quite chaoticly across the plain with stream like shapes and textures visible all around.

25% zooms including the area of picture 2 in the initial post (picture 1 of this post):

Arabia Terra including the Mawrth Vallis seems to be a real interesting area on Mars

MPJ, I'm seeing the features as roughly spaced. Not quite equidistant, but enough to be quite curious. In a certain respect the distribution reminds me of the spacing of towns in the great plains. When looking at the famous "night map of the world", the points of light are towns. There is a reason for that. They cropped up along railroad lines in the steam locomotive days. At intervals, the locomotives had to stop for water. If they had to stop, might as well pick up and unload. Towns were born. Of course, that's not the reason for the spacing of terrain features in the images you generously provided, but there has to be SOME reason. Start in the top left of the second image you posted and follow the "daisy chain" down to the lower right. I think you will see what I'm seeing.

I think i know what you mean - this made me curious in the first place so i got a little deeper into this particular HiRISE observation. An explanation would be quite interesting

Speaking of geometric features: I came across some rather strange terrain in the ESP_014412_1780 HiRISE observation as well. As a little weekend-fun i made a small collection of crops from this observation:

Some features visible made me laugh while zooming across this observation - Mars is a strange place

MPJ, I've spent the last few days poking around the Lybian desert on google earth. There are many correlations. More than I ever imagined. Ever study a potato? The eyes are arranged in a spiral pattern. There are three rows. The math is perfect. I can "see" math, I see it in nature. I appreciate those who have hashed out the forumlas and equations.

Re. reply 4., possibly ancient weathered lineal glacial scouring?