Friday, December 19, 2008

Mineral Mars




Missing Mars Mineral



Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL/University of Arizona/Brown University

This image shows carbonate-bearing rocks in the sides of eroded mesas in the Nili Fossae region. Scientists believe the carbonates may have been formed at the surface when olivine-rich rocks were exposed, and altered, by running water.





Found!



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