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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape

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This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars' Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the craterThis illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim.  Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS
 
Rock layers on MarsThis 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. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
 
Rock layers on marsThis image from Curiosity’s Mastcam shows inclined…

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