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The search for water on Mars
The search for water on Mars

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This figure is a photograph of the martian surface taken by the Curiosity rover. In the foreground is an area of fine grained martian dust with some larger pebbles. Behind this is a rock outcrop covered by a thin layer of dust. The dust is a red-brown colour, and the rock outcrop is green-orange. The rock has horizontal, parallel beds.
Figure 47 Sandstones at the location ‘The Kimberly’ at Gale crater, Mars. Those sandstones occur together with conglomerates in the sequence of deposits in the crater. The third water-laid type of rock are mudstones. The black, triangular rock in the middle of the image is about 80 cm wide. Image credit: NASA/JPL.

 4.9 Rolling on the ground again: MSL