What Curiosity's been seeing on Mars (photos)
by Laura Shin | August 6, 2012 | Image 9 of 9
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One minute 16 seconds before touchdown, Curiosity took this photo of Mars's surface, which has relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet to many tens of feet in height. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Watch video of Curiosity's final descent to Mars at Science Scope.
One minute 16 seconds before touchdown, Curiosity took this photo of Mars's surface, which has relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet to many tens of feet in height. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Watch video of Curiosity's final descent to Mars at Science Scope. - Image 9 of 9
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I can't wait to see more. It is good that the landing worked well using the sky crane to help drop Curiosity with less shock.
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Cannot wait to see what an examination of the rock layers will show
Posted by LEL90
7th Aug
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