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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Nimesh Khakhariya | TNN

Five Kutch sites resemble Mars surface

RAJKOT: In a major discovery, scientists and geologists have found that features of five sites in Kutch bear much resemblance to the geological activity taking place on planet Mars.

Scientists determined that these were terrestrial analogue sites - places on Earth whose features have an analogy with planetary bodies - using rover and orbiter-based remote sensing data from the different missions of the past several decades to study Martian analog in the Kutch basin.

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