PIA05626: "Last Chance" Evidence of Ancient Water Flow
This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up of texture interpreted as cross-lamination evidence that sediments forming the rock were laid down in flowing water on Mars' Meridiani Planum.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 
 Spacecraft:  Opportunity
 Instrument:  Microscopic Imager 
Panoramic Camera 
 Product Size:  720 x 540 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA05626.tif (372.3 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA05626.jpg (54 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

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Figure 1

A three-dimensional close-up visualization of this portion of the martian rock called "Last Chance" (see PIA05482) offers additional details of the cross-lamination. The visualization and the image from the panoramic camera are compared to show a point of correlation (yellow arrow, Figure 1).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/Cornell/ARC

Image Addition Date:
2004-03-24