Science and Exploration

A Wild Assortment of Jumbled Rocks on Mars

By Keith Cowing
April 15, 2012
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A Wild Assortment of Jumbled Rocks on Mars
Jumbled Rocks on Mars
NASA/JPL/SSI

This image covers a region of Mars near Nili Fossae that contains some of the best exposures of ancient bedrock on Mars. The enhanced-color subimage shows part of the ejecta from an impact crater.
The impact broke up already diverse rocks types and mixed them together to create this wild jumble of colors, each representing a different type of rock. Larger image.

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