Martian rover finds exposed mineral veins
APR 03, 2015
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.028766
Discovery News : NASA’s Curiosity rover has discovered a network of mineral veins protruding out of the surrounding rock that the rover’s scientists have dubbed Garden City. The outcropping was photographed on 16 March in the Pahrump Hills region at the base of Mount Sharp. The two-toned veins likely hold more evidence of Mars’s wet past: Such formations are created when water deposits minerals as it flows through cracks in rocks, and the color layers suggest that the deposits happened during separate periods of wetness in the region.
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