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		Mars Revisited << Back to Feature Page View exclusive photographs and get the facts behind the frame. Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> Click to ZOOM IN >> The Layered Look Image by MSS and NASA/JPL This graphic bull's-eye in Mars's Schiaparelli basin offers more evidence of the planet's watery past. The image, made by the Mars Orbiter Camera on Mars Global Surveyor in June 2003, shows a 1.4-mile-wide (2.3-kilometer-wide) crater scored by layers of sedimentary rock, perhaps deposited by an ancient lake.

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