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Making Tracks on Mars

Posted by michael on from the leave-only-footprints-and-landers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a remarkable series of orbital pictures, the Mars Global Surveyor's cameras have imaged the tracks of the Spirit rover on the surface. Individual debris pieces including the backshell and lander are visible with remarkable clarity using an innovative roll of the satellite."

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  1. Great, now the tree-huggers will... by potus98 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...start attacking NASA for terrorizing the natural environment of Mars. NASA will be blamed for wrecking fragile former wetlands and destroying possible cures for AIDs and cancer. All so a bunch of adreneline-pumped off-roaders can go joy-riding with some fancy-schmancy camera truck.

    Oh wait, haven't they heard: Us evil humans ARE A PART OF nature.

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