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Home Plate Hints At Explosive Past
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- Home Plate Hints At Explosive Past

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Home_Plate_Hints_At_Explosive_Past.html

Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2006 - New images from NASA's Spirit rover show
coarse-grained layers from around the edge of a low plateau called Home Plate
inside Gusev Crater on Mars. One possible origin for the material it fell to the
ground after being thrown aloft by an explosion such as a volcanic eruption or
meteorite impact.

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