Curiosity rover shows wind-carved Mars cliffs with a mystery

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNASA's Curiosity rover has sent back a new view of Mars, and a NASA scientist says one set of cliffs in it looks out of place, the outlet ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOut of place on Mars. A planet where nothing is in place, because nothing lives there.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe cliffs are wind-carved, they stretch about ten miles, and the picture is six photographs stitched together on Earth.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSix photographs. So the spectacular view is a collage.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe project scientist says the layer is the wrong color, the layers tilt at an odd angle, and it almost appears plastered on.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPlastered on. Somebody's been cutting corners up there, and I'd like to see the invoice.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists hope to reach the base of the cliffs in twenty twenty-seven, when the rover can use its robotic arm.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorUntil then, it's a very far look at a wall.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the rover climbed a full kilometer uphill, found a wall that looks wrong, and now has to wait a year to touch it. I know that feeling.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's a wall. A wrong one. Ten miles long.