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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4968 4974: Rock Climbing Towards the Discontinuity

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Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 31, 2026 As mentioned in the previous blog, Curiosity has been exploring a large scale feature in Gale’s sedimentary record suspected to be an “erosional supersurface.” The “supersurface” represents This is the original publication from NASA.

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