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Which Planet is This? A Gale Crater Doppelganger
The Badwater Basin region of California’s Death Valley acquired by NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite (EO-1) on October 23, 2002. Alluvial fans in the image are remarkably similar to the terrain that the Curiosity rover will explore on Mars. Image and annotations from NASA Earth Observatory
Leave it to NASA’s Earth Observtory folks to come up with a terrestrial image that captures the familiar terrain the car-sized rover Curiosity will explore on Mars.
“You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you, and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture,” said project scientist John Grotzinger during a recent press conference.
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Post tags: Badwater Basin, Curiosity, Death Valley, Earth Observing Satellite (EO-1), Mars, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA
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2012-08-16 12:00:24
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/96846/a-earthly-and-familiar-context-for-curiosity-rover/
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