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Which details from "NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape" help develop the central idea that lakes may have once existed on Mars? Select all that apply. 1. The rock layers—alternating between lake, river, and wind deposits—bear witness to the repeated filling and evaporation of a Martian lake much larger and longer-lasting than any previously examined close-up. 2.This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet. 3."The great thing about a lake that occurs repeatedly, over and over, is that each time it comes back it is another experiment to tell you how the environment works," Grotzinger said. 4. Despite earlier evidence from several Mars missions that pointed to wet environments on ancient Mars, modeling of the ancient climate has yet to identify the conditions that could have

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B)The rock layers—alternating between lake, river and wind deposits—bear witness to the repeated filling and evaporation of a Martian lake much larger and longer-lasting than any previously examined close-up.

C)This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet.

Option B supports the idea of a lake existing in Mars by explaining how the rock layers of the planet show evidence of a repeated filling and evaporation of a Martian lake. Option C, on the other hand, provides evidence of a climate that could have sustained lakes on Mars.

However, option A and D do not directly reference the existence of lakes on Mars and do not even discuss the planet  itself