[FOTZeiss] Mars Rover To Examine Pyramid-Shaped Boulder

[Glenn A. Walsh]

Curiosity's robotic arm is set to get its first workout. It's been tasked with examining a football-sized rock whose odd pyramidal shape caught the eyes of NASA scientists--and fueled the imagination of earthlings everywhere who are perhaps a tad too eager for the rover to find evidence of intelligent life on the Red Planet.

http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/09/mars-rover-to-examine-pyramid-shaped.html

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Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director,
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