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Of more than passing Curiosity
360 Cities - Mars Panorama - Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 177 ^ | Taken 06:14, 07/02/2013 | Andrew Bodrov

Posted on 02/23/2013 8:01:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2

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To: dr_lew

Wait until the EPA sees that.


41 posted on 03/01/2013 9:43:10 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dr_lew

What I want to know is how the Rover is able to make tire marks in the dirt, without the marks continuing in one direction or the other ?

Or are those toolmarks instead of tire marks ?


42 posted on 03/01/2013 9:48:54 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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To: dr_lew
Nothing but a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms

Is all we are, or all we seem, but a dream within a dream?

43 posted on 03/01/2013 9:55:09 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Here's a "smaller scale" ( i.e. larger range ) view of the scene of the crime, as it might be called with poetic justification.

This was part of Curiosity's "crushing campaign" which was actually described ( without using that actual term, of course ) in the JPL dispatches. This particular "crush" was performed some sols ago, but as you can see Curiosity backed up to the right and advanced to its current position along a slightly different line. It was supported by the rock you see at top right when it dropped down, then rolled back up on it, leaving the isolated "crush" and track mark. It's actually operating in pretty close quarters at the drill site, very much like a bull in a china shop. I believe that is the right rear wheel that you see, and which did the deed.

44 posted on 03/01/2013 10:21:00 PM PST by dr_lew
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I thought I knew something of Poe, but I didn’t know that one, so thanks are due for that.

I think the answer has to be yes. As Sir Arthur Eddington observed, “It seems more and more that the Universe is not a great machine, but a great thought.”


45 posted on 03/01/2013 10:51:02 PM PST by dr_lew
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