For those of you that are nerds like me, here is a really cool interview describing Opportunity rover's mission to descend into Victoria crater.

I completely <3 the rovers; I think they're adorable ^_^ I wrote a paper on them a year and a half ago.

GO OPPORTUNITY GO!!!

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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars


NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven years.

"These observations give the strongest evidence to date that water still flows occasionally on the surface of Mars," ( Read more... )