NASA's Mars Curiosity rover's operators have made up their minds, and the off world vehicle will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.That left the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab with a big decision: either the rover would continue along Gediz Vallis to look for a place to cross it — or venture out to the south side of Pinnacle Ridge, which is traversable according to the latest uploaded data..
"This analysis is not snapshot, but a record of change," said coauthor and Penn State assistant professor of geosciences Benjamin Cardenas in a statement at the time. "What we see on Mars today is the remnants of an active geologic history, not some landscape frozen in time." And Curiosity is only scratching the surface. Scientists believe other parts of the Martian surface could've also been formed and shaped by sediment that was once carried by rivers billions of years ago, a time when the planet likely looked completely unrecognizable.
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