Very cool geology news, from our sister planet ...
NASA Mars rover finds key evidence for lake at landing site
by Irene Klotz, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Dec 8, 2014
(Reuters) - Billions of years ago, a lake once filled the 96-mile- (154-km) wide crater being explored by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, bolstering evidence that the planet most like Earth in the solar system was suitable for microbial life, scientists said on Monday.
The new findings combine more than two years of data collected by the rover since its sky-crane landing inside Gale Crater in August 2012.
Scientists discovered stacks of rocks containing water-deposited sediments inclined toward the crater’s center, which now sports a three-mile (5 km) mound called Mount Sharp. That would mean that Mount Sharp didn’t exist during a period of time roughly 3.5 billion years ago when the crater was filled with water, Curiosity researchers told reporters during a conference call.
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-- Artist's rendering of a Mars Exploration Rover -- Wiki Media
Link to Rover Video about this cool news. (which won't embed, Sorry.)
So here are a few images from the Video, showing the sedimentary "lake-bed" rocks just discovered:
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Kind of reminds me of "Home" ... Maybe some day, eh?
-- Panoramic composite photograph by Wally Pacholka; Ken Croswell -- National Geographic
Maybe some day ... we'll live up to our destinies ...