Endurance Crater (mosaic panorama from "NASA - Picture of the Day")

Un Panorama "ridondante", pubblicato sul Sito "NASA - Picture of the Day" del giorno 11 Ottobre 2004. Vale la pena riportare una parte del commento originale all'immagine: "...Possible choices for the Opportunity rover team on Earth (...) were to send the Martian robot inside Endurance Crater toward the arc-shaped sand dunes on the left, the unusually shaped rock on the right slope dubbed Wopmay and lower parts of Burns Cliff at the top of the craters inner slopes. The Opportunity rover team chose 1-meter diameter rock Wopmay as their next target and closer photographs are already being returned. (...) Opportunity has recently found rocks in Endurance crater with a network of cracks potentially indicative of dried mud, bolstering the case that Mars had a wet ancient past". Secondo noi il fatto di parlare di prove solo "potentially indicative...that Mars had a wet ancient past", a questo punto, è ridicolo. Che cosa deve vedere il Rover per smuovere la NASA? Delle cascate come quelle del Niagara?