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"Curiosity at Martian
Scienic Overlook"

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Ashwin Vasavada:
When the Curiosity rover

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climbed a ridge
and the skies

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cleared up during martian
winter, we had the chance to

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take this amazing panorama.

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I'm really glad we did.

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Curiosity is inside Gale
crater, a huge basin made by

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an impactor about 3.8
billion years ago.

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The mountains across the
crater floor are actually the

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northern rim of the crater.

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They rise over a mile
above the rover.

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It's so clear, when we took
this image, that you can even

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see a hill outside the crater
that is 50 miles away!

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I love how you can see Peace
Vallis, a channel that once

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held a flowing river, like
many others that formed lakes

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inside Gale crater.

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This is also the first time we
could look back and see

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everywhere we've been so
far in the mission

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since landing in 2012.

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Here's the path we took.

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After landing, we drove to
Yellowknife Bay

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before we turned southwest
through Darwin, Cooperstown,

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and the Kimberley.

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The rover studied dark,
windblown sand at Namib Dune.

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Curiosity then weaved
between the Murray Buttes,

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checked out Ireson Hill,

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and made a tricky crossing
of the Bagnold Dunes

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before reaching the ridge
where it sits today

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and caught this
amazing view.

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To aid geologists, colors in
the image are white balanced so

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rocks appear the same color as
the same rocks would on Earth.

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