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Curiosity on Mars: Mt. Sharp in View
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Curiosity on Mars: Mt. Sharp in View
Explanation: What's that on the horizon? The light peak is
Mt. Sharp
-- an
eventual destination
of the Curiosity rover. The above
image mosaic
was taken from
Bradbury
Landing, the
landing spot
of Curiosity, and shows in the foreground the rover's extended
robotic arm
. Curiosity's is already
on the move
crossing the intermediate gravel field toward an
interesting
terrain feature named
Glenelg
.
Curiosity
has also already started analyzing its surroundings by
zapping a nearby rock
with its laser to analyze the chemical composition of the resulting gas plume. If
life ever existed on Mars
it might well have been here in Gale crater, with the Curiosity rover being humanity's current best chance to
find what remains
. What is that?
Help identify a mystery object!
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