A Sampling of Martian Soils
This collage shows the variety of soils found at landing sites on Mars. The elemental composition of the typical, reddish soils were investigated by NASA Viking, Pathfinder and Mars Exploration Rover missions, and now with the Curiosity rover.
- Date
- 2012-12-03
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"A Sampling of Martian Soils" (2012-12-03). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA16571Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 23498.
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