# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5qpXKpETo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11732968-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-03-09T23:11:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Stop and smell the Martian “flower” 🌸

On Feb. 24, 2022, our Curiosity Mars rover captured this image of artifacts from the Red Planet’s ancient past. Smaller than a penny, the flower-like rock along with the spherical rock seen on the right were made when minerals carried by water cemented the rock. 

This flower is one of a bouquet of artifacts Curiosity has discovered – a diverse assortment of small features that formed when mineralizing fluids traveled through conduits in the rock. Images of these features help scientists tell the story petal-by-petal of the prolonged history of liquid in the Gale Crater. 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#NASA #NASAJPL #Curiosity #Mars #RedPlanet #Artifacts #Flowers #SpaceRocks

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curiosity, artifacts, redplanet, spacerocks, nasajpl, flowers, nasa, mars

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