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An image taken by the Curiosity Rover MastCam instrument shows layered sedimentary rocks composing Mount Sharp. The rover has been driving from the floor of Gale crater up through the rocks within these hills in order to understand how the rocks

HKU geologists discover that the NASA rover has been exploring surface sediments, not lake deposits for last eight years

Life and Planetary Evolution | August 11, 2021

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences have shown that the geochemistry and geology of Gale crater on Mars are better Explained by ancient chemical weathering rather than the past existence of a vast lake. The results, led by PhD student Jiacheng Liu were recently published in Science Advances.