Mud cracks on Mars (IMAGE)

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Mud cracks on Mars

Caption

Patterns in mud cracks show that Mars may have had cyclical moisture patterns. Left: the terrain in the Gale Crater where Curiosity is currently exploring. Right: mud cracks on Earth, where wet-dry cycling has occurred, creating Y-shaped patterns.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, LANL.

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