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        "description": "<p>August 9, 2012\u2014New images from the Mars Curiosity rover show a crater looking like the Mojave Desert, according to a NASA scientist. The rover's cameras also reveal indentations on the pebbly surface, likely created by the spacecraft's landing thruster jets.</p>", 
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        "title": "New Rover Pictures Show Mars Crater \"Like Mojave Desert\"", 
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                    "name": "First Color Mars-Rover Pictures + Space Shots of Crashed Gear"
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        "credit": "2012 National Geographic; video and images courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech", 
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        "transcript": "<p>Even before the Mars Curiosity rover rolled its wheels across the Martian surface, it had left its marks in the soil.</p><p>This photo shows indentations, likely from the jet thrusters of the rover's landing craft. And it's not just holes in the ground.</p><p>The excavation reveals likely bedrock, indicating that the surface soil is shallow.</p><p>Curiosity is equipped with the highest resolution cameras ever placed on the planet, far improved from equipment on rovers sent to Mars years ago.</p><p>Curiosity's new home in Gale Crater doesn't look a whole lot different from parts of Earth.</p><p>SOUNDBITE: John Grotzinger, MSL Project Scientist, Caltech: \u00a0\"The first impression that you get is how Earth-like this seems, looking at that landscape.\u00a0 You would really be forgiven for thinking that NASA was trying to pull a fast one on you and we actually put a rover out in the Mojave Desert and took a picture.\"</p><p>Other early images include a self-portrait, captured from Curiosity's mast.</p><p>Its first panoramic view, with the crate<a name=\"_GoBack\"></a>r rim seen at center, and the rover's body is in the foreground, with the shadow of its mast, poking up to the right.</p><p>And some video, too.\u00a0 This, taken from the Mars Descent Imager, shows the \"flying-saucer-like\" heat shield dropping away during the rover's landing.</p><p>And finally, one of the rover's destinations looms in the background: Mount Sharp, a nearly three-and-a-half mile high mountain, higher than Mt. Rainier. <em></em></p>", 
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