Of more than passing Curiosity

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

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I found a link to this INTERACTIVE VIEW of the Curiosity Rover on Mars on the ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE.

It is one of the most amazing uses of this technology I have seen. It is like standing beside the Rover on Mars and using a pair of binoculars.

Give it a try. It is really fun.

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Wait until the EPA sees that.

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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 ?

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Nothing but a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms

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

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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.

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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.”