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Four views of Durness, an outcrop featuring crystals or crystal voids, Curiosity sol 1995

Four views of Durness, an outcrop featuring crystals or crystal voids, Curiosity sol 1995
Four views of Durness, an outcrop featuring crystals or crystal voids, Curiosity sol 1995 Durness is an outcrop on the upper member of the Vera Rubin Ridge. After zapping the rock at 10 spots with ChemCam to check its elemental composition (lower left), Curiosity imaged the spot with its Mastcam (upper right) and from two distances with the arm-mounted MAHLI upper and lower right). NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / LANL / CNES / IRAP