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Some images are like pages from a history book. Only... it may be written in a language some of us barely understand 🥴

Here is a page out of the Whale Mountain history book telling how the rocks scattered around Yori Pass came to be. There are other pages before and after this one that may tell more about what happened there, when they're put in order by professional rock historians (also known as geologists).

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Δαμία - She/Her

@65dBnoise
Wow, look at those embed boulders :o

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V Martín

@65dBnoise
and look at all of it in a wider context in these two gigapans by NeV-T

gigapan.com/gigapans/231113

gigapan.com/gigapans/231115

#JezeroCrater

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William Brooks is moving

@65dBnoise
That is amazing - the scattered boulders make so much more sense in this context!

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Tom Montgomery

@65dBnoise
My copy of the Whale Mountain history book is missing the chapter that explains how that layer of smooth, rounded rocks got buried underneath the upper layers of sedimentary (?) strata.

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65dBnoise

Here is a page from the Jezero history book found at an underground Martian rock bookstore; not sure it's authentic:

"Life was nice and peaceful by the lake, in Jezero. Microbes were thriving, and lichens 🥬 had just started growing on the hills next to the water 🎶

And then all of a sudden, bad things started to happen 🌪️. A slowly progressing climate change came to a tipping point; heavy thunderstorms ⛈️ ⚡ would start out of the blue within minutes, and megatons of water, carrying huge

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