Rugged highland material in an area near the Martian equator. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL September 19, 2008
More than 1,500 newly released images from a spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will boost understanding of what minerals exist where on the Martian surface.
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