Natures artistry from space

Uplands carved by water.

But it's the small blue polls in the right of the larger image that scientists are really interested in.

These have living stromatolites in them. These are cyanobacterial mats that form stony layers. Some of the first living things on this earth and perhaps to be found fossilised on Mars. If life made it there.

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