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A Day on Mars

Featured on August 24, 2016

The Curiosity rover captured this view of the Martian landscape on August 22. The rock face comprises layers of sandstone covered with loose layers of wind-blown sand. The rover has found that some of the rock layers around it formed in a watery environment. [NASA/JPL/MSSS]

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