Churned-Up Rocky Debris and Dust
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been analyzing sulfur-rich rocks and surface materials in the "Columbia Hills" in Gusev Crater on Mars. This image shows rocky debris and dust, which planetary scientists call "regolith" or "soil, " that has been churned up by the rover wheels. This 40-centimeter-wide (16-inch-wide) patch of churned-up dirt, nicknamed "Paso Robles, " contains brighter patches measured to be high in sulfur by Spirit's alpha particle X-ray Spectrometer. Spirit landed on Mars on 3 January 2004. Spirit's panoramic camera took this image on martian day, or sol, 400 (Feb. 16, 2005).