Sediment Accumulation in Dry and Wet Periods
This series of images reconstructs the geology of the region around Mars' Mount Sharp, where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landed and is now driving. The images, taken on Earth in Svalbard, Norway, have been altered for the illustration. The mountain range serves as the rim of Gale Crater, the crater that surrounds Mount Sharp. In Mars' past, almost 4 billion years ago, water from snowmelt flowed ..