Gale Crater (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute

Gale Crater

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The image is from 'Hidden Valley' in Gale Crater on Mars. Very fine-grained sediments, which slowly fell down through the water, were deposited right at the bottom of the crater lake. The sediment plates at the bottom are level, so everything indicates that the entire Gale Crater may have been a large lake.

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(Credit: NASA/JPL, MSSS)

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