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April 20, 2012

Layers in Danielson Crater, Mars

by wordlesstech team

Layers in Danielson Crater, Mars

These layered sediments in Danielson Crater, from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, are of great interest because they are very regular in thicknesses. They suggesting some sort of periodic process such as climate change associated with Mars orbital variations.  Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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