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hi my name is Katie stack and I'm a

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curiosity rover mission scientist here

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at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and

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this is your Curiosity rover report

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after two years and nearly nine

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kilometers of driving we finally arrived

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at the base of Mount sharp before we

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even arrived at Gale Crater we used our

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orbital images to begin our exploration

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of Mount sharp what we found was an

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important boundary separating the

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sediments of the Gale Crater floor and

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the layers of lower mount sharp the

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rover is now here at this important

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boundary in earlier paths to Murray

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buttes would have delayed our arrival at

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lower mount sharp however a couple of

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months ago we decided to take a

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different path because it was more

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scientifically interesting and that

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brought us to Pahrump Hills where we're

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encountering the rocks of lower Mount

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sharp

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nearly two kilometers before we

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originally expected this bright outcrop

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is Pahrump Hills it's about 15 metres

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across at this location we're looking

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forward to obtaining our first drilled

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sample of lower Mount sharp and while

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we're excited about what we may find

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here our exploration of Mount sharp is

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really just beginning as originally

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planned we'll be exploring Mount sharp

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layer by layer along the way we'll be

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encountering a number of interesting

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geologic features where we're looking

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forward to continuing our search for

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ancient habitable environments in Gale