Images offer insight into Mars? history

Published April 23, 2008 4:00am ET



A new online map shows the forces that once shaped Mars, including long periods of wet, dry and volcanic conditions.

False-color images taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) show deposits left by ancient oceans, rivers and groundwater springs revealed beneath layers of hardened magma and dust.

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