Can't wait until it lands.

Just last week, the Opportunity gave this spectacular view
from the edge of 14 mile wide Endeavour crater on Mars.
It should be just a tease of what's to come with the
MSL.

Are those sand dunes at the bottom of the crater
surrounding the central bulge ..a beach? How long ago
could an ice-covered lake, fed from melting underground
water ice, existed?

http://areo.info/mer/opportunity/272...5L6L6.jpg.html
http://areo.info/mer/opportunity/277...5L5L6.jpg.html
http://areo.info/mer/opportunity/274...5L5L6.jpg.html
http://areo.info/mer/opportunity/272...5L6L6.jpg.html


Mars dry and dead for a billion years plus?
I don't think so. I think there was an ice-covered lake
at the bottom of that crater thousands of years ago.
Not billions. Click below...this doesn't look like
geologic time scales to me, more like ice-age scales.

http://areo.info/mer/opportunity/267...5L7L7.jpg.html


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