Mars panorama from Curiosity shows petrified sand dunes

Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 03:34 in Astronomy & Space

Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock.

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