We are continuing our detailed traverse around the Pahrump area. I will be Geo ScienceTheme Lead tomorrow and we aim to do more contact science. The MastCam image is of Book Cliffs. You can see the Dust Removal Tool area where we now have APXS compositional data. The ridges in this sediment are clear signs of the passage of water from through cracks after the sediment was buried. One of the significant points about this for understanding the history of water in Gale Crater is that there must have been a large amount of water passing through the sediment over a protracted period of time to create a relatively large mass of secondary minerals.
25th November 2014 Sol 819
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This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards... I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions. You can also follow the planetary science activities with @LeicsPlanets Professor John Bridges, School of Physics and Astronomy
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