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Mars Mystery Solved

Sunday, September 27, 2015 6:56
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Last edited on Sept. 29, 2015: Mars Mystery Solved by this photo:

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this photo with left Mast Camera on Aug. 27, 2015 (Sol 1087) near Marias Pass in Gale Crater, Mars. In the red circle is a curving corrugated sheet found on Mars. Image source: 

mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1087ML00477601405…

Another view of the same corrugated sheet: 
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In the red box above is a curving corrugated sheet found on Mars. Image cropped and enlarged from www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19818 (Note: Click the blue words “Download the full resolution annotated TIFF file”. Then look in the lower left corner of the downloaded image.)
Added on Sept. 29, 2015: Reasons why it is not a rock
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1. Red line 1 goes to a flat surface while red line 2 goes to a corrugated surface.
2. Red lines 3 and 4 go to the upward curving portions of the object.
3. The object is thinner than 1 cm (see mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=1087ML00477601405… )
Rocks that are so thin do not curve and corrugate like this. 
More photos solved the Mars Mystery: 
 
 
 

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