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“Last Chance” Evidence of Ancient Water Flow

This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a close-up of texture interpreted as cross-lamination evidence that sediments forming the rock were laid down in flowing water on Mars' Meridiani Planum.
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Credits: NASA/JPL/Cornell/ARC
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A three-dimensional close-up visualization of this portion of the martian rock called "Last Chance" (see PIA05482) offers additional details of the cross-lamination. The visualization and the image from the panoramic camera are compared to show a point of correlation (yellow arrow, Figure 1).

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