A small step for Curiosity but ... After a cool touchdown curiosity is driving around on mars looking for life + H2O and sending some nice pics. All nice but I can imagine in 10 years PhD students can remain seated in the office sending commands to a rover exploring interesting features with a mobile iso-chem lab, discharge - evaporation - stem flow measurements.
But luckily down on earth we can still go to the field catch some fresh air, be curious and get wet <:D
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| Picture made by Curiosity with on the back Mt. Sharp. image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS |