Saturday, July 23, 2011

NASA Picks Rover’s Destination - A Mountain on Mars

"NASA’s next Mars rover — the ambitious, beleaguered, delayed Mars Science Laboratory — finally has a destination.
Mission scientists announced Friday that the rover, a nuclear-powered vehicle the size of a small S.U.V., would head to Gale Crater, a 96-mile-wide depression near the Martian equator. What attracted them there is a mountain that rises upward nearly three miles at the center, making it taller, for example, than Mount Rainier outside Seattle."
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