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Curiosity, or Mars Science Laboratory

Give MSL a Real Name!

The voting has begun to give the Mars Science Laboratory a genuine, non-acronym name!

Spirit's rear view, sol 1,856

Spirit puts the pedal to the metal

Way to go, Spirit! The last two drives for the five-wheeled rover have taken it a total of about 40 meters west, traveling around the north edge of Home Plate. If I'm not mistaken, that's more than Spirit has driven in the last 400 sols combined.

Grand Falls

Planetary Surface Processes Field Trip: Day 6

Today we visited Grand Falls and the nearby dune field. Grand Falls is especially interesting because it combines many of the processes that are active in shaping planetary surfaces.

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