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Mars: the rover Curiosity on its way to Mount Sharp

Pasadena, USA - The probe will analyze the terrain characteristics in the zone

Curiosity, the NASA rover which landed a few days ago on Mars' surface (AVIONEWS) is sending awesome images of the Red Planet, just like the one you can see in this page: in the picture shot by NASA's probe it is possible to see Mars' surface, which resembles an Earth desert and, in the left part of the image, the lower part of one of the slopes of Mount Sharp, a 5500-metre peak inside Gale Crater,...

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Rome, Italy, 08/10/2012 17:02
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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