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NASA’s Mars rover proves these peculiar ridges have secrets to tell

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NASA 's Curiosity rover has started drilling into a bizarre landscape on Mars that could upend assumptions about when the Red Planet truly dried out.

Scientists had hypothesized that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the region before it dried out for good.

The bedrock between the ridges contains veins of calcium sulfate, a salty mineral left behind as groundwater seeps into cracks.

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