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NASA’s Curiosity Captures Dawn Breaking on Wind-Carved Cliffs

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  • NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of sunrise illuminating distant, wind-carved features called yardangs on Aug. 11, 2026, the 4,982nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
  • Since 2014, Curiosity has been ascending 3-mile-tall Mount Sharp, which is made up of a series of distinct layers that were deposited one on top of the other.

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of sunrise illuminating distant, wind-carved features called yardangs on Aug. 11, 2026, the 4,982nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed.

Figure A is a crop zooming in on the distant yardangs.

Since 2014, Curiosity has been ascending 3-mile-tall Mount Sharp, which is made up of a series of distinct layers that were deposited one on top of the other. Before the yardang layer was laid down, Mount Sharp may have begun eroding, creating a gap in the otherwise continuous record of climate history that Curiosity has been reading from the layers.

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NASAas they published this story 86.6 7 0 0 52.6
ABC News 93.1 6 63 0.1 57.2
Mundane Readneutralized from NASA 88.5 7 0 0 52.6

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