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The impact of Curiosity's sky crane, which helped deliver the rover to the surface of Mars by lowering it the final 20 feet on a tether, exposed the darker material underneath the surface dust when it landed after being jettisoned away from the rover.
August 7, 2012 12:57 PM PDT
Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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