Color Coded
The Nili Fossae region is a top contender to be selected as the landing site for the next Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory mission, in 2010. This landscape recently fell under the sensitive eye of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which made these maps of the region’s mineralogy. They indicate that this area is rich in clays formed by water, making it a prime location for digging into the history of Mars. See more details.
September 12, 2007
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