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A large disintegrating congealed mess of rock, looking like it might have been formed in some violent event.
Strongly striated rock floor outcrop with long linear gouges or grooves ranging across the dust covered surface
Exposed ground rock with a rippled and pitted yet shiny surface made bluish by small fragments of blue-black rock, parts of the surface are covered by spots of matt purple Martian 'desert varnish' that have survived erosion.
A rough congealed mess of eroding rock, there is a rover track passing behind it.
On a rise littered with smaller rock debris, a larger hunk of rock shows clear signs of having been carved and undermined by aeolian erosion processes over time.
A single piece of eroding rough lumpy conglomerate rock surrounded by small granules.
Left 'eye': A shallow circular abrasion in the rock surface with light coloured debris dust.
Mastcam-Z image taken of Middle Mountain, nicknamed “sombrero rock”, as part of a multispectral observation on sol 907 to better understand its composition. This image was acquired on Sept. 8, 2023 (Sol 907) at the local mean solar time of 12:44:36.
A series of close-ups of the shallow circular percussive abrasion, revealing the nature of the rock just underneath the surface.
A rounded rock stands proud of the surrounding graded regolith, it's apparently shiny surface cleared of rusty brown dust
A larger, rounded, rock appears to be holding court, surrounded by a large gathering of various much smaller more angular rocks
Subject seen through Mastcam-Z's right 'eye': The part of the rock that was under the regolith looks darker, as if wet, though it can't be, and regolith appears to have adhered to it.
Martian sand ripples flow down the side of a rise past exposed ridges of tumbled broken rocks, as if a bronze-coloured worn velvet drape had been dropped over the rocky slope beneath.
A series of close-ups of part of the shallow circular percussive abrasion revealing the nature of the rock just underneath the rock surface which appears consistently fine grained
A shallow circular hole abraded into the rock surrounded by powdery debris stands out against the standard rusty-red Martian dust covered surface around it.
Sand bars drifting over bedrock give way to a eroding small outcrop covered in tumbled rocks