Curiosity has been sent to investigate the central mountain inside Gale Crater that is more than 5km high.
Curiosity is due to turn its drill again in this mudstone for further analysis before climbing out of Yellowknife Bay and heading for the crater's big central mountain, Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp).
The instrument has established that winds generally blow east-west on the floor of the crater - something of a surprise to researchers who thought the rover's position close to the northern slopes of Gale's big central mountain might drive winds in a prevailing north-west direction as air moved up and down the peak in a day-night cycle.
Along with the West North Central region, the West South Central and the Mountain regions also plan to add the most personnel.
Some 30 members of Brecon, Central and Longtown mountain rescue teams were called and difficult conditions meant she could not be reached by rescue helicopter.
Similar experiments include the Xenon 100 experiment at the Gran Sasso Mountain in central Italy.
It is a richly structured landscape ranging from 600 m to 3, 000 m above sea level and encompasses typical ecosystems of the Central Alps such as mountain meadows and mires with great biodiversity.
They could be hiding in Jabal-Al Halal -- a rugged mountain terrain in central Sinai.
Two Czech mountaineers were killed in an avalanche in the Tatras mountain ranges in central Slovakia on Friday.
The Brecon, Central Beacons and Western Beacons mountain rescue teams all helped in the operation, as did an RAF rescue helicopter from Chivenor in Devon.
Russians living in Chelyabinsk, a city in the Ural mountain area of central Russia, woke up to a surprising visitor from outer space Friday morning.
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If there's more rain, you might expect to see it in the lee of Green Mountain's central peak and there is indeed a rainier strip, the locals say, stretching across the island from Two Boats to Comfortless Cove, a frequent source of teatime drizzle in the rainier months.
Over the 2007-to-present period, small business employment has been strongest in the West South Central region and weakest in the Mountain region.
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Do not be surprised if, whatever proper name it is eventually assigned, the new, mountain-dwelling, central-Asian species actually becomes known as the yeti.
The Bakony-Balaton Global Geopark is situated in western Hungary in the north-western part of the Carpathian Basin of central Europe, surrounded by young fold mountain ranges.
The discovery site lies between the northern rim of the crater and the huge mountain that rises up from its central plain.
But as good as parts of this film are - the battle scenes, the Law and Portman vignette, Seymour Hoffman's frisky clergyman - Cold Mountain cannot overcome the problems of its central uninspiring romance.
Take it slow (if that is at all possible in the vehicular maelstrom of central Beirut) and try not to develop the local fondness for speeding around blind mountain bends.
The region makes for prime cycling country thanks to paved bike paths and numerous secondary roads free of city traffic, while the mountain surroundings and unique Cape-Dutch homesteads (marked by the prominent central dormer gable of the buildings) provide spectacular scenery.
The Wild River Wilderness is a beautiful and unspoiled part of the White Mountain National Forest, located just a few miles from the Maine border in central-eastern New Hampshire.
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