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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape


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This evenly layered rock photographed by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover on Aug. 7, 2014, shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit not far from where flowing water entered a lake.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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