To find this evidence, powdered rock created by the drilling will be analyzed by Curiosity.
This is part of a larger, high-resolution color mosaic made from images obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera.
From the data gathered by Curiosity's meteorological station, scientists think dust-devils may even have run over the mobile laboratory.
The image was obtained by Curiosity's Mast Camera on Feb. 20, or Sol 193, Curiosity's 193rd Martian day of operations.
Reading is often motivated by needs to affiliate and feel validated as much as by curiosity and a desire to learn.
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If you look at the pictures of Shaler taken by Curiosity, you can see how subsequent erosion has taken its toll on this preserved bedform.
The initial images transmitted Monday by Curiosity were taken through the vehicle's hazard-avoidance cameras, before their transparent but dusty lens covers had been removed.
Mr McKinnon, arrested in November 2002, has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he only managed to get into the networks because of lax security.
And, if you are tickled as much by curiosity as snobbery, the potted histories of families do reveal intriguing patterns that spell warnings of doom or suggest tendencies to excellence.
Ken and Marco are routinely stitching together the stream of images returned by Curiosity to make vistas that Nasa itself does not always find the time to produce and place in the public domain.
If the planet does harbor liquid water today, it would have to be deep below the surface, perhaps peeking out in a few special places, but not likely to be seen by Curiosity, Squyres said.
Motivated by curiosity, boredom, and hunger for a little power, they range from the mildly annoying (such as the Hacking for Girlies group that brought down the New York Times site on the day the Starr Report came out) on up to the criminal "crackers" (such as Vladimir Levin, who allegedly transferred millions of dollars from Citibank's mainframe computers to accounts in Finland and Israel).
They are moved more by simple curiosity as to whether such a huge spoof can possibly succeed, and, if so, what will follow when the truth is told.
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"That will be motivated by intellectual curiosity, " says Fishman.
Shaw had already been in the practice of ending conversations with light prods for juicy office gossip he told Forbes, but he found that employees were sometimes taken aback by his curiosity.
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This work is undertaken on his own time and driven by his curiosity and the pragmatic recognition that he must do more than keep up to compete with younger generations with recent degrees.
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And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
The whole house felt like a series of monastic cells, their piety replaced by a worldly curiosity, an endless warren of blackened fireplaces, bookshelves and windows framing the sea.
While I did think the pacing hit some rough spots here and there, by and large the story races along, and the reader races along with it, driven by excitement and curiosity.
It starts with having the humility to be self-aware of your own limitations, followed by the intellectual curiosity to ask the right questions and actively listen to input, and concluding with the belief and optimism that something better is always possible.
Hence, the Unabomber -- who killed three people and maimed and mutilated more than a score of others -- was treated with morbid curiosity by the press, as if he were a sideshow freak instead of a wicked, willful murderer who deserved to be put to death.
There, the owner, Alan Cooper, had his curiosity aroused by the discovery of a single shoe in an attic space.
Not to be outdone by its brother, Curiosity has found the first evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars near the Gale Crater.
Children driven by the power of curiosity figured it out.
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So, Scout got upgraded from an 8-bit processor to a 32-bit unit based on Micrium, the operation system being used by NASA's Curiosity Rover for sample analysis on Mars.
Shipione's curiosity was whetted by a series of Callan opinions that struck her as odd.
While the dates and quaint names on decades-old family records are fascinating, my curiosity was piqued by where they tied the knot.
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It might, for example, have been a by-product of our curiosity about the causes of natural phenomena, or of our desire for social connection.
It was uplifting to see such pure enthusiasm and curiosity displayed, in particular by the younger entrants.
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