Blog Post Image: NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars

An Earth Analog to Mars’ Yellowknife Bay. This set of images shows a modern terrestrial analog to the “Yellowknife Bay” area that NASA’s Curiosity rover is exploring. At left is a sampling pit exposing clay-bearing lake sediments, deposited in a basaltic basin in southern Australia. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ames (Click image to enlarge)