The Angry Red Planet just gut a little angrier:
This sequence of images shows the heat shield from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory hitting the ground on Mars and raising a cloud of dust.
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Those of you who know me know that I'm unhappy living here in Arizona.
People love to speculate that Mars was once a great place for life to form, and claim that there is plenty of evidence that there used to be oceans and rivers there. But this isn't true.
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This has to be the worst insult to the Martian atmosphere since Zarkov turned off the catalytic converters on Flash Gordon's rocket ship.
Greg,
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