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PIA23551: Researching Outback Stromatolites
Scientists from NASA's Mars 2020 and ESA's ExoMars projects study stromatolites, the oldest confirmed fossilized lifeforms on Earth, in the Pilbara region of North West Australia.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Rover 
 Product Size:  4032 x 3024 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23551.tif (36.59 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23551.jpg (2.427 MB)  

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Scientists from NASA's Mars 2020 and ESA's ExoMars projects study stromatolites, the oldest confirmed fossilized lifeforms on Earth, in the Pilbara region of North West Australia. The image was taken on Aug. 19, 2019.

JPL is building and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 rover for the NASA Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2019-11-15