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Rover's Reward For Climbing: Exposed Geological Contact

Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
Rover's Reward For Climbing: Exposed Geological Contact
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Uploader comment: The Martian outcrop where pale rock meets darker overlying rock near the middle of this view is an example of a geological contact. Such contacts can reveal clues about how the environmental conditions that produced one type of rock were related to the conditions that produced the other.


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