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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured a close-up view of a rock nicknamed "Terra Firme" last month, which looks like the open pages of a book. The rock is about an inch across and was snapped by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager. Rocks with unusual shapes are common on Mars and often were formed by water seeping through cracks in a rock in the ancient past, bringing harder minerals along with them.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured a close-up view of a rock nicknamed "Terra Firme" last month, which looks like the open pages of a book. The rock is about an inch across and was snapped by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager. Rocks with unusual shapes are common on Mars and often were formed by water seeping through cracks in a rock in the ancient past, bringing harder minerals along with them.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered a rock on Mars that looks like the open pages of a book, nicknamed "Terra Firme." The rock was formed by water depositing harder minerals and wind erosion shaping it over time. Curiosity's mission is to explore the Gale Crater on Mars and analyze its climate, geology, and the potential for past and present habitability. Its most significant discoveries include evidence of ancient riverbeds and the presence of organic molecules, which suggest the possibility that Mars once harbored microbial life.