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Lava flow from top of hill?

In this picture below, it appears there was something that oozed from between the rocks on the end of this hill (right side of the picture). I have the picture marked with a link area so run your cursor over it and you'll see where I'm talking about. Clicking on it will take you to another picture that's more zoomed in of the area.

Makes me wonder if these hills weren't the result of uplifting from subsurface magma with some lava pushing out from cracks at the top of this hill. Of course from the orbital shots, it appears the hills are the result of some space rock(s) slamming into the area at an angle. Guess if that had happened fractures in the uplifted rock and crust could still have have had the same type of lava ooze.

So does anyone know if Mars Express is going to fly over this area and get us some really dynamic 3D color imagery of the hills?

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040818a/01-SSS-01-Mosaic-A223R1_br.jpg

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