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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance rover viewed these rocks with its Mastcam-Z imager on April 27, 2021.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Images Intriguing Rocks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-11 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021.
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Mastcam-Z Views Santa Cruz on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-10 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop Mont Mercou, a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below. The panorama is stitched together from 132 individual images taken on April 15, 2021.
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Curiosity's 360-degree View Atop Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-05-07 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's was captured after landing on May 7, 2021, by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the helicopter's fifth flight, and the first time the helicopter flew to a new landing site.
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Mastcam-Z Views Ingenuity After Fifth Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over Jezero Crater during its second experimental flight test on April 22, 2021. The imagery was captured by the Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z imager.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Second Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 19, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. This video features only the moments of takeoff and the landing.
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Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Taking Off and Landing
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-20 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover shot video of Ingenuity helicopter's flight, presented here in side-by-side processed versions that have both been enhanced to show a dust plume swirling during takeoff and again on landing.
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Enhanced Video Shows Dust During Ingenuity's Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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In this footage captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021, the Ingenuity helicopter lifts of from Mars' surface, hovers for 30 seconds, then touches back down.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity's First Full Flight
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovers over the Martian surface as viewed by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard the Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021. The helicopter climbed to an altitude of 10 feet (3 meters), hovering for 30 seconds.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z Video of Ingenuity Hovering
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-19 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image was taken after the first flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. It was captured by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, on April 19, 2021.
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Ingenuity's First Flight Recorded by Mastcam-Z
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-17 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image from NASA's Perseverance rover shows the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter right after it successfully completed a high-speed spin-up test. It was captured by the Mastcam-Z instrument on Perseverance on April 16, 2021.
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Ingenuity Right After a Spin
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Ingenuity helicopter's carbon fiber blades can be seen spinning up to in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Mastcam-Z Captures Ingenuity's Blades Spinning
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-13 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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The Ingenuity helicopter's solar panel charges six lithium-ion batteries inside the helicopter. The small amount of dust on the panel has no adverse effects on the helicopter's power.
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Mars Helicopter's Solar Array as Seen by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-09 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter unlocked its blades, allowing them to spin freely, on April 7, 2021. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z imager aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover on the following sol, April 8, 2021.
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Ingenuity's Blades Are Released
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-06 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24547:
Mastcam-Z Gives Ingenuity a Close-up
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-04-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam to take an image of this mountain, nicknamed Rafael Navarro Mountain after the astrobiologist Rafael Navarro-González, who worked on the mission until he passed away January 26, 2021.
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Rafael Navarro Mountain
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 126 individual images that make up this 360-degree panorama on March 3, 2021, the 3,048th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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Curiosity's 360-Degree View Approaching Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mastcam instrument to take the 32 individual images that make up this panorama of the outcrop nicknamed Mont Mercou. It took a second panorama to create a stereoscopic view. Both panoramas were taken on March 4, 2021.
PIA24266:
Curiosity's 3D View of Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-30 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The panorama is made up of 60 images from the MAHLI camera on the rover's robotic arm along with 11 images from the Mastcam on the mast of the rover.
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Curiosity's Selfie at Mont Mercou
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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From its landing site, Octavia E. Butler Landing, NASA's Perseverance rover can see a remnant of a fan-shaped deposit of sediments known as a delta (the raised area of dark brown rock in the middle ground) with its Mastcam-Z instrument.
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Perseverance View of the Delta in Jezero Crater
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-05 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Taken Feb. 22, 2021, this image from the Mastcam-Z instrument on NASA's Perseverance rover shows a target for analysis by the rover's SuperCam instrument.
PIA24484:
A Target for Perseverance's SuperCam
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-04 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This image shows the 142 images that make up Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24445:
Still: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-04 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This GIF shows the order in which the 142 images that makeup the Mastcam-Z's first 360-degree panorama were taken. Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable cameras on the mast, or head, of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover.
PIA24444:
GIF: How Mastcam-Z's 360-Degree Panorama Was Taken
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-03-02 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Stitched together from 79 individual images, this Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z right-eye 110-mm zoom mosaic is from the camera's first high-resolution panorama imaging sequence.
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Perseverance's Mastcam-Z First High-Resolution Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-24 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together from 142 individual images taken on February 21, 2021.
PIA24264:
Mastcam-Z's First 360-Degree Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-02-22 Mars Mars 2020 Rover
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Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover, imaged its calibration targets for the first time on Feb. 20, 2021. The targets are used as reference markers so scientists can adjust the colors and settings on the cameras.
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Mastcam-Z Looks at Its Calibration Target
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Add Image to Favorite List 2021-01-12 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama, made up of 122 individual images stitched together, was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on November 18, 2020, the 2,946th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
PIA24180:
Curiosity's View of Benches on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This wide panorama was taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Dec. 19, 2019. On the righthand foreground is Western Butte. The ridge with a crusty cap in the background is the Greenheugh pediment.
PIA23971:
Curiosity Captures a Spaghetti Western Landscape on Mars
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-08-03 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its telephoto lens to capture Mount Sharp in the morning illumination on Oct. 13, 2019.
PIA23898:
A Dramatic View of Mars' Mount Sharp
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The goosebump-like features in the center of this image were formed by water billions of years ago. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered them as it crested the slope of Greenheugh Pediment on Feb. 24, 2020.
PIA23975:
Curiosity Finds Nodules near the Top of Pediment Slope
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Stitched together from 28 images, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view from Greenheugh Pediment on April 9, 2020.
PIA23974:
Curiosity's View From the Top of the Greenheugh Pediment
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-07-06 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Stitched together from 116 images, this view captured by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the path it will take in the summer of 2020 as it drives toward the next region it will be investigating, the sulfate-bearing unit.
PIA23973:
Curiosity's Path to the Sulfate-Bearing Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-06-15 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Two images of the night sky were combined to show Earth and Venus as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on June 5, 2020. The planets appear as pinpoints of light owing to a combination of distance and dust in the air.
PIA23899:
Curiosity Rover Finds Earth and Venus in the Martian Sky
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Add Image to Favorite List 2020-03-04 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity rover captured its highest-resolution panorama of the Martian surface between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019.
PIA23623:
Curiosity's 1.8-Billion-Pixel Panorama
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This mosaic of images shows a boulder-sized rock called 'Strathdon,' which is made up of many complex layers. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took these images using its Mast Camera, or Mastcam.
PIA23348:
Mastcam Views Strathdon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-08-05 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This 360-degree panorama of a location called 'Teal Ridge' was captured on Mars by the Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity rover on June 18, 2019.
PIA23346:
Curiosity Surveys Teal Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this set of images before and after it drilled a rock on Saturday, April 6, 2019.
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Curiosity's First Clay Unit Drill Hole
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this mosaic as it explored the clay-bearing unit on Jan. 23, 2019 (Sol 2299).
PIA23137:
Curiosity Sees Waves in the Clay Unit
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The Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this mosaic as it explored the clay-bearing unit on February 3, 2019 (Sol 2309).
PIA23139:
Curiosity Surveys the Clay-Bearing Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-04 Deimos Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This series of images shows the Martian moon Deimos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Sunday, March 17, 2019 (the 2,350th Martian day, or sol, of the mission).
PIA23134:
Curiosity Observes Deimos Eclipse: Sol 2350
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-04-04 Phobos Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This series of images shows the Martian moon Phobos as it crossed in front of the Sun, as seen by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 (Sol 2359).
PIA23133:
Curiosity Observes Phobos Eclipse: Sol 2359
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-22 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this image with its Mastcam on Feb. 10, 2019 (Sol 2316). The rover is currently exploring a region of Mount Sharp nicknamed Glen Torridon that has lots of clay minerals.
PIA23047:
Curiosity on the Clay Unit
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Add Image to Favorite List 2019-02-08 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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This panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover was taken on Dec. 19, 2018 (Sol 2265).
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Curiosity's 360 Panorama of Rock Hall
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NASA's Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings on Aug. 9, 2018, showing its current location on Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge. The panorama includes skies darkened by a fading global dust storm and a rare view of the rover itself.
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Panorama of Vera Rubin Ridge
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-20 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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Two images from the Mast Camera onboard NASA's Curiosity rover depict the change in the color of light illuminating the Martian surface since a dust storm engulfed Gale Crater. At left shows the 'Duluth' drill site on May 21, 2018; at right from June 17.
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Duluth After Dust Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-06-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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These two views from NASA's Curiosity rover, acquired specifically to measure the amount of dust inside Gale Crater, show that dust has increased over three days from a major Martian dust storm.
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Curiosity's View of the June 2018 Dust Storm
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The drill bit of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover over one of the sample inlets on the rover's deck. The inlets lead to Curiosity's onboard laboratories.
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Inlet Cover On the Curiosity Rover
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Add Image to Favorite List 2018-05-23 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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A close-up image of a 2-inch-deep hole produced using a new drilling technique for NASA's Curiosity rover. Curiosity drilled this hole in a target called 'Duluth' on May 20, 2018.
PIA22326:
Curiosity Successfully Drills "Duluth"
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NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled a 2-inch-deep hole in a target called 'Duluth' on May 20, 2018. It was the first rock sample captured by the drill since October 2016.
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First Drilled Sample on Mars Since 2016
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This mosaic taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp. The scene has been white-balanced so the colors of the rock materials resemble how they would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
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Curiosity is Ready for Clay
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This mosaic taken by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover looks uphill at Mount Sharp. Highlighted is an area in white with clay-bearing rocks that scientists are eager to explore.
PIA22312:
Curiosity is Ready for Clay (Highlighted)
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used a new drill method to produce a hole on Feb. 26, 2018, in a target named Lake Orcadie. The hole marks the first operation of the rover's drill since a motor problem began acting up more than a year ago.
PIA22224:
Curiosity Tests a New Drill Method on Mars
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Climbing 'Vera Rubin Ridge' provided NASA's Curiosity Mars rover this sweeping vista of the interior and rim of Gale Crater, including much of the rover's route during its first five-and-a-half years on Mars.
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Wide-Angle Panorama from Ridge in Mars' Gale Crater
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A vantage point on 'Vera Rubin Ridge' provided NASA's Curiosity Mars rover this detailed look back over the area where it began its mission inside Gale Crater, plus more-distant features of the crater.
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Telephoto Vista from Ridge in Mars' Gale Crater
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On a part of 'Vera Rubin Ridge,' NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this image of a rock surface that had been brushed with the rover's Dust Removal Tool.
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Curiosity Checks Under the Dust on a Martian Rock
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This false-color image shows how special filters of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover's Mastcam can help reveal certain minerals in target rocks. It is a composite of images taken Sept. 17, 2017.
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Science-Filters Study of Martian Rock Sees Hematite
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This pair of images from the Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover illustrates how special filters are used to scout terrain ahead for variations in the local bedrock.
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Mastcam Special Filters Help Locate Variations Ahead
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-09-13 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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The Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' about two weeks before the rover started ascending this steep ridge on lower Mount Sharp.
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Looking Up at Layers of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' on Sol 1790
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Researchers used the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover to gain this detailed view of layers in 'Vera Rubin Ridge' from just below the ridge.
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Martian Ridge Looming Above Curiosity Prior to Ascent
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'Vera Rubin Ridge,' a favored destination for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover even before the rover landed in 2012, rises near the rover nearly five years later in this panorama from Curiosity's Mastcam.
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Curiosity View of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' From Below, Sol 1734
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-07-11 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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A rippled linear dune of dark Martian sand, 'Nathan Bridges Dune,' dominates this full-circle panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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'Nathan Bridges Dune' on a Martian Mountain
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This dark mound, called 'Ireson Hill,' rises about 16 feet (5 meters) above redder layered outcrop material of the Murray formation on lower Mount Sharp, Mars, near a location where NASA's Curiosity rover examined a linear sand dune in February 2017.
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'Ireson Hill' on Mount Sharp, Mars
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This panorama from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows details of 'Vera Rubin Ridge,' which stretches about 4 miles (6.5 kilometers), end-to-end, on the northwestern flank of lower Mount Sharp.
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Wide 'Vera Rubin Ridge' Ahead of Curiosity Mars Rover
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This look ahead from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover includes four geological layers to be examined by the mission, and higher reaches of Mount Sharp beyond the planned study area.
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View Toward 'Vera Rubin Ridge' on Mount Sharp, Mars
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called 'Pahrump Hills' on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014 and 2015. Blue dots indicate where drilled samples of powdered rock were collected for analysis.
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Key Locations Studied at 'Pahrump Hills' on Mars
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This view from the NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows two scales of ripples, plus other textures, in an area where the mission examined a linear-shaped dune in the Bagnold dune field on lower Mount Sharp.
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Textures Where Curiosity Rover Studied a Martian Dune
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This 360-degree mosaic from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover looks out over a portion of the Bagnold Dunes, which stretch for several miles.
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Panorama with Active Linear Dune in Gale Crater, Mars
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A grid of small polygons on the Martian rock surface near the right edge of this view may have originated as cracks in drying mud more than 3 billion years ago. Multiple images of this view were combined for this view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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Possible Signs of Ancient Drying in Martian Rock
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This view of a Martian rock slab called 'Old Soaker,' which has a network of cracks that may have originated in drying mud, comes from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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Mars Rover's Mastcam View of Possible Mud Cracks
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The foreground of this scene from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows purple-hued rocks near the rover's late-2016 location on lower Mount Sharp. Variations in color of the rocks hint at the diversity of their composition.
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Color Variations on Mount Sharp, Mars (White Balanced)
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Examination of a calcium sulfate vein called 'Diyogha' by the Chemical and ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover found boron, sodium and chlorine.
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Boron, Sodium and Chlorine in Mineral Vein 'Diyogha,' Mars
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This two-part illustration shows the context of the erosion-resistant, raised vein, called 'Catabola,' in an image from NASA's Curiosity's Mast Camera. The highest concentration of boron measured on Mars.
PIA21251:
Boron in Calcium Sulfate Vein at 'Catabola,' Mars
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The top of the butte in this scene from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is known as 'M9a' in the 'Murray Buttes' area, where individual buttes and mesas were assigned numbers.
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Butte 'M9a' in 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
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This panorama combines sets of images taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from the 'Murray Buttes' area on Mars' lower Mount Sharp.
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Cluster of Martian Mesas on Lower Mount Sharp, Sols 1438 and 1439
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The two prominent mesas in this view of Mars' 'Murray Buttes' region from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover are about 260 feet (about 80 meters) apart. Upper Mount Sharp is the salmon-hued mound dominating the horizon between the scene's two prominent mesas.
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Martian Mesas in 'Murray Buttes' Area, Sol 1434
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This 360-degree panorama was acquired NASA's Curiosity Mars rover while the rover was in an area called 'Murray Buttes' on lower Mount Sharp, one of the most scenic landscapes yet visited by any Mars rover.
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Rover's Panorama Taken Amid 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a hillside outcrop with layered rocks within the 'Murray Buttes' region on lower Mount Sharp.
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Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 5)
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows an outcrop with finely layered rocks within the 'Murray Buttes' region on lower Mount Sharp.
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Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 4)
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows finely layered rocks within the 'Murray Buttes' region on lower Mount Sharp.
PIA21043:
Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 3)
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows sloping buttes and layered outcrops within the 'Murray Buttes' region on lower Mount Sharp.
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Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 2)
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The rim of Gale Crater is visible in the distance, through the dusty haze, in this view of NASA's Curiosity rover of a sloping hillside on Mount Sharp.
PIA21041:
Farewell to Murray Buttes (Image 1)
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The rock in the foreground at right in this 3D scene is informally named 'Balombo.' The group of boulders is at a site called 'Bimbe.' NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover shows boulders composed of pebble-size and larger rock fragments.
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Breccia-Conglomerate Rocks on Lower Mount Sharp, Mars (Stereo)
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This 360-degree panorama was acquired by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover as the rover neared features called 'Murray Buttes' on lower Mount Sharp.
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Rover's Panorama of Entrance to 'Murray Buttes' on Mars
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Two sizes of wind-sculpted ripples are evident in this view from NASA's Curiosity of the top surface of 'Namib Dune' in the Bagnold Dune Field. The larger ripples are a type not seen on Earth nor previously recognized as a distinct type on Mars.
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Two Sizes of Ripples on Surface of Martian Sand Dune
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This early-morning view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover covers a field of view of about 130 degrees of the inner wall of Gale Crater. The rover's location was on the 'Naukluft Plateau' of lower Mount Sharp.
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Northern Portion of Gale Crater Rim Viewed from 'Naukluft Plateau'
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This mid-afternoon, 360-degree panorama was acquired by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on April 4, 2016, as part of long-term campaign to document the context and details of the geology and landforms along Curiosity's traverse inside Gale Crater.
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Full-Circle Vista from 'Naukluft Plateau' on Mars
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Patches of Martian sandstone visible in this view from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have a knobbly texture due to nodules apparently more resistant to erosion than the host rock in which some are still embedded.
PIA20322:
Knobbly Textured Sandstone on Mount Sharp, Mars
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This view from NASA's Curiosity rover of the downwind face of 'Namib Dune' on Mars covers 360 degrees, including a portion of Mount Sharp on the horizon. The site is part of the dark-sand 'Bagnold Dunes' field along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.
PIA20284:
Full-Circle Panorama Beside 'Namib Dune' on Mars
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Combining multiple images, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reveals fine details of the downwind face of 'Namib Dune.' Sand on this face of the dark dune has cascaded down a slope of about 26 to 28 degrees.
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Mastcam Telephoto of a Martian Dune's Downwind Face
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover covers an area in 'Bridger Basin' that includes the locations where the rover drilled a target called 'Big Sky' on the mission's Sol 1119 (Sept. 29, 2015).
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'Big Sky' and 'Greenhorn' Drilling Area on Mount Sharp
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This image from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reveals details of a bedrock discoloration pattern at a site between 'Marias Pass' and 'Bridger Basin.' The discoloration is not associated with individual layers.
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Detail of Discoloration Pattern Seen by Curiosity
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) in NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the 'Marias Pass' area where a lower and older geological unit of mudstone.
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'Marias Pass,' Contact Zone of Two Martian Rock Units
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A wheel track left by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover exposes underlying material in a shallow sand sheet in this view from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam). The site is close to a large sand dune of similarly dark sand grains.
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Rover Track in Sand Sheet Near Martian Sand Dune
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The rippled surface of the first Martian sand dune ever studied up close fills this view of 'High Dune' from the Mastcam on NASA's Curiosity rover. This site is part of the 'Bagnold Dunes' field along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp.
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'High Dune' is First Martian Dune Studied up Close
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The dark band in the lower portion of this Martian scene is part of the 'Bagnold Dunes' dune field lining the northwestern edge of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater.
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Glimpse of 'Bagnold Dunes' Edging Mount Sharp
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a dark sand dune in the middle distance. Mount Sharp will be the first in-place study of an active sand dune anywhere other than Earth.
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Curiosity Rover Will Study Dunes on Route up Mountain
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Prominent mineral veins at the 'Garden City' site examined by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover vary in thickness and brightness, as seen in this image from Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam).
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'Garden City' Vein Complex on Lower Mount Sharp, Mars
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This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp.
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Veiny 'Garden City' Site and Surroundings on Mount Sharp, Mars
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An image taken at the 'Hidden Valley' site, en-route to Mount Sharp, by NASA's Curiosity rover. A variety of mudstone strata in the area indicate a lakebed deposit, with river- and stream-related deposits nearby.
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Secrets of 'Hidden Valley' on Mars
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A view from the 'Kimberly' formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover. The strata in the foreground dip towards the base of Mount Sharp, indicating the ancient depression that existed before the larger bulk of the mountain formed.
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Strata at Base of Mount Sharp Animation Icon
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