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On Dec 20, 2013, the cousins catalogued 60 rocks moving across the playa's pancake-flat surface."Observed rock movement occurred on sunny, clear days, following nights of sub-freezing temperatures," they wrote in a report published Wednesday in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.

 
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