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This image released by NASA on Tuesday shows a color thumbnail image obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Sunday. This image from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet to several feet high.

Mars rover Curiosity

( NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems / August 7, 2012 )

This image released by NASA on Tuesday shows a color thumbnail image obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Sunday. This image from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet to several feet high.

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