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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Data from the sensors were downloaded, and then the sensors were reburied. The LPSA team plans to publish a research...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Intern Kyle Yawn marked the boundaries of this trail by placing pushpins into cracks in the clay. Now, he...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

In some cases, the trail starts narrow and gets wider, as in this photo. Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/Leva McIntire/LPSA...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The main mystery on Racetrack Playa is how the rocks move, but another, possibly greater mystery, is why some trails...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

This is a Hygrochron sensor. Sensors were buried at different depths, to see how the temperature and moisture levels...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The rocks are famous because they move, leaving tell-tale trails in the clay, like this one. This happens at several...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

A small level is used to see if the trail is tilted upward or downward. In most cases where a rock has moved, the...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Many of the moving rocks are about the size of a loaf of bread and weigh about 25 pounds. Interns Kristopher...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The summer interns with the 2010 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The trails can be straight, or they can curve. Sometimes, two trails run alongside each other. Those two lines...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Sometimes, a gunfight breaks out, like this one between (left) Mindy Krzykowski and (right) Leva McIntire. This is...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Some of the moving rocks are large. This one is about 10 inches tall. Researchers in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Four LPSA interns test the clay at Bonnie Claire Playa, another location where the rocks move, to see how quickly...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

This group photo of the LPSA interns and trip leaders was taken at Tea Kettle Junction in Death Valley, Calif....

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

There's nothing special about these rocks, which are ordinary dolomite from the surrounding mountains. The rocks...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The rocks at Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif., are famous. Photo credit: NASA/GSFC/Maggie McAdam To read a...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

To investigate the rocks and trails, the interns collect many kinds of data, such as trail length, width, and depth;...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

The trails have some curious features. Sometimes the clay gets pushed into a mound at the trail's end, as in this...

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NASA image: Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
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Dec 8, 2017

Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Researchers think that water, ice, and wind work together to move the stones. In this photo, the students dig up...

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NASA's Image and Video Library contains over 140,000 publicly accessible images, videos, and audio files spanning the agency's entire history, from the Mercury program of the 1960s to the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. The collection grows daily as new missions capture imagery and archival materials are digitized. Individual mission archives, such as Mars rover photos, contain hundreds of thousands of additional images.
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