Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2015 - Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock. This sandstone outcrop - part of a geological layer that Curiosity's science team calls the Stimson unit - has a structure called crossbedding on a large scale that the team has ... more
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