News Writer:
Kimm Fesenmaier
NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named Hottah after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. This geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
An ankle- or hip-deep stream once flowed with force across the surface of Mars in the very spot where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring. The finding, announced by members of the project's science team today at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), provides new information about a once wet environment in Gale Crater, the ancient impact crater where the rover touched down in early August.
