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Caption: In this photo taken at the Atacama Desert in Chile, the ground has similar sulfate cracks to those seen on the surface of Mars. The researcher in the foreground is William Dietrich, UC Berkeley professor of geomorphology.
Credit: Photo by Ronald Amundson, UC Berkeley
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