Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968-4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity
Further investigation of this geological feature may shed light on Mars' ancient environmental history.
Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large-scale feature in Gale’s sedimentary record suspected to be an “erosional supersurface.” The “supersurface” represents a period in time when a net depositional environment changed […]
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