ScienceCasts: The Strange Attraction of Gale Crater

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NASA's newest rover Curiosity is getting ready to leave Earth. It's destination: Gale crater on Mars. Today's story from Science@NASA explains the attraction of this Martian crater with a strangely-sculpted mountain the middle.

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[Designandrew]

I wish you guys would put a REALLY nice camera on the back of one of these rovers so as they fly away from earth they could get amazing footage. realtime, high def with a perfect eye similar lens.

[toocoolforu]

'i know who i am and that's what matters' it goes both ways retard. Ok now i am a liar apparently.

You come here and vomit your non sense conspiracies, no one cares! you're just making a fool of yourself. And then you reply to me, well you don't really reply, you just insult for the heck of it WITHOUT even contradicting my claims. You're the one who should go learn something in school, you're just embarrassed i debunked all your bullshit. There is really no reason to talk to a moron like you.

[Jimbobasaur]

meteorites from mars also contain minerals that, on earth, are only created by bacteria

[Jimbobasaur]

in mars' history, it had a thicker atmosphere like the earth's, a magnetic field, a warm moist atmosphere and 1/3 of it was covered in water. NASA said that ancient mars WAS habitable for life, had it been present there. mars lasted like this for millions of years and its believed that life takes roughly 100,000 years to develop. that and the fact mars lightning storms, rain, and snow (which it has today) some NASA scientists say there over 90% chance of life being once and/or still present

[cacasarq]

1:20 very high canion.

[malikd00]

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[Proxximityx]

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[knoxvilleguy2]

NASA seemed like it was going to spill the beans on a major discovery this month. Now they're hemming, hawwing & fumfing around about whether they found signs of past or present organic matter, correct ? Organic matter doesn't automatically mean life.

[Patrick Daly]

/watch?v=lLYhkU6tMA8

pause at 7-8 seconds and step slowly to see how the mountain was formed. erosion afterwards is possible, even likely, but as far as mountains in the middle of craters, theres the mechanism to explain.

[jose medina]

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