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China’s Qaidam Basin Landscape Similar with Mars
Monday, July 30, 2012 17:09
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Geologist, sedimentation expert and Mars Science Laboratory team member David Rubin of the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center investigates longitudinal dunes in China’s Qaidam Basin. He comments: “The landscape has some similarity with Mars: almost total lack of vegetation and wind-formed landscape.”
Infrared mosaic image of Mars Gale crater by the Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center and Arizona State University. The Mars Science Laboratory is scheduled to land in Gale crater Aug. 5, 2012.
Source: USGS
2012-07-30 10:28:31
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