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Curiosity Pulls into Kimberly and Spies Curvy Terrain For Drilling Action
Martian landscape with rows of curved rock outcrops in the foreground and spectacular Mount Sharp on the horizon. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover pulled into Kimberly waypoint dominated by layered rock outcrops as potentially drilling site. This colorized navcam camera photomosaic was assembled from imagery taken on Sol 576 (Mar. 20, 2014). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer-kenkremer.com
NASA’s Curiosity rover has just pulled into gorgeous terrain chock full of curvy rock outcrops at Kimberly that’s suitable for contact science and drilling action, according to the mission team.
The six wheeled Martian dune buggy drove into the Kimberly waypoint this week after traversing a swath of otherworldly dune fields since passing through a gateway known as the ‘Dingo Gap’ sand dune some six weeks ago.
The science team has been hunting for tasty rock outcrops suitable for the first drilling campaign since she departed the dried out lakebed at Yellowknife Bay in July 2013 and began her epic trek towards the base of Mount Sharp.(…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/110522/curiosity-pulls-into-kimberly-and-spies-curvy-terrain-for-drilling-action/
They are SO full of BS.
I’ve been watching Mars burn up for more than a week. Docked by Venus & Mercury. Huge flares and explosions.
Go look on SECCHI images…I’ll even give you the link for ‘todays’ image
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/sccimages/index.php?subdir=HI_A/20140320/512¬humb=1
So YellowRose, you are saying that Mars is currently inflamed and experiencing burning conditions, so we need to pull out of Kimberly and look to drill elsewhere? Perhaps we should send up some penicillin spores to fix the problem. Can we still drill if we properly cover our apparatus, or do you recommend we just find another hole to explore?