The bulk of Mount Sharp is kind of a horizontal layer cake that built up over time. Ashwin Vasavada More Quotes by Ashwin Vasavada More Quotes From Ashwin Vasavada There is no group that would be (happier) to see such a thing than the 500 scientists around the world who work on this Curiosity rover, so far we haven't seen anything that is so obvious that it would be similar to what these claims are. Ashwin Vasavada top-news The thing that keeps coming back to me every single day is how un-weird it is, how much it looks like Earth, it's just fascinating that (on) Mars, even today, you can see the landscapes formed in similar ways that deserts and other places on Earth formed. It's kind of mind-blowing. Ashwin Vasavada top-news We are working our way to answering what is a very difficult scientific question, it's unfortunately not going to be as easy as seeing a mermaid in a picture. Ashwin Vasavada top-news That photo was up in a place we are studying. Ashwin Vasavada top-news From a distance, we can see car-sized boulders that were transported down from higher levels of Mount Sharp -- maybe by water relatively late in Mars' wet era, we don't really know what they are, so we wanted to see them up close. Ashwin Vasavada Our science team is excited to figure out how they formed and what they mean for the ancient environment within Gale. Ashwin Vasavada While many on our team were at home enjoying turkey, Curiosity produced this feast for the eyes, this is the first time during the mission we've dedicated our operations to a stereo 360-degree panorama. Ashwin Vasavada
