#rocks – @curiositymarsrover on Tumblr

Meanwhile, back on Mars... I’m checking out these stick-like figures. Each is about a quarter-inch long. Maybe they're crystals? Or they could be minerals that filled spaces where crystals dissolved away. Stay tuned! Science continues.

Source: mars.jpl.nasa.gov

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Purple Martian Majesty: Look closely and you’ll see purple and tan bands in this bedrock on Mars.

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There's iron in them thar hills. I'm starting my investigation of hematite-bearing "Vera Rubin Ridge" on #Mars.

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Layers of meaning! These rocks show the deep and shallow waters of an ancient Martian lake could've supported different kinds of microbes. This evenly layered rock imaged in 2014 by my Mastcam shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit near where flowing water entered a lake. Shallow and deep parts of an ancient Martian lake left different clues in mudstone formed from lakebed deposits. Credit: @nasa/NASAJPL-Caltech/MSSS

Source: jpl.nasa.gov

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Frozen in Time: I found what appear to be petrified sand dunes on Mars.

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