NASA Rover Photographs Rocky Mars Crater

[Whoa_Nelly]

PASADENA, Calif. Feb. 10 — NASA's Opportunity rover has embarked on a "scoot and shoot" on Mars, driving counterclockwise around the rocky inner perimeter of a crater while photographing it in detail.
Scientists likened Opportunity's landing to a hole-in-one in golf: The air bag-cushioned rover bounced and rolled across the martian surface right into a small crater.

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Microscopic images of the rock show its fine layers hold numerous spherical granules, "embedded in it like blueberries in a muffin," Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres said.

The sulfur-rich rock, probably volcanic ash or compacted, windblown dust, sheds the relatively harder granules as the outcrop erodes, said Squyres, the mission's main scientist.

"This is wild-looking stuff," Squyres said.

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[MrPrax]

1. Like this wild-looking stuff?

Can the rover get out of the crater and check out the Face, the soviet-terrafirming at the Pole, the Tubes or this little dude?


heh..