Or the men walking to their offices in gale-force winds, dressed in just their work shirts.
Nonetheless, some members of the science team still dream of finding tantalising chemical markers in Gale's rocks.
He alerted Falmouth Coastguard at about 16:00 BST that his yacht had lost its mast in gale-force conditions.
The Canadian north-west has some ancient rock formations, similar in age, we think, to those found in Gale Crater, Curiosity's landing site.
Prof Squyres showed a comparison of the Whitewater Lake outcrop and rocks found at the location Curiosity is exploring in Gale Crater.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater, which hosts a mound called Mount Sharp.
The rover landed in Gale Crater and started moving towards Glenelg.
In many regions of Mars, dust-devil tracks and shadows have been seen from orbit, but those visual clues have not been seen in Gale Crater.
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Two sailors were rescued off the Isles of Scilly after their 36ft (10.9m) yacht got into trouble in gale force winds and rough seas, coastguards said.
Curiosity has already seen plenty of evidence for past running water in Gale Crater and the results from the drill-hole analysis are expected to reveal further information about that wet history.
They picked the rock in Gale Crater, which the robot has been exploring since it landed there on Aug. 5, because they hope it holds evidence of wet environmental conditions long ago.
Just before conjunction, it drilled into a mudstone in a rock unit referred to as Sheepbed and found further compelling evidence for a watery past in Gale - sediments that possibly once formed a lakebed.
But if Curiosity could make the definitive identification of organics in Gale Crater, it would be a eureka moment and go a long way towards demonstrating that the Red Planet did indeed have habitable environments in its ancient past.
These estimates feel a bit like a wet finger held up in a gale swirling in different directions - more hunch than exact science.
The owner of Gale's Wine Bar in Llangollen Richard Gale said he would not be taking part in the scheme.
The Rems instrument was the sole part of the rover that suffered damage when it touched down in the equatorial Gale Crater back in August.
Curiosity landed in Mars' equatorial Gale Crater in August, and has driven eastwards almost 500m since then.
Was it really the Lord Protector's head that was rammed on a pike in Whitehall, to discourage regicides, only to be blown down in a gale and swiped by a soldier?
Ten years ago the only large yachts capable of such speeds were Whitbread round-the-world racers crewed by 12 burly sailors and even then only while surfing down a giant wave in a gale.
The two men had to abandon the yacht and get into a life raft because winching them to safety over the deck was impossible in the gale force conditions, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.
Because they are preserved in the Gale crater still today, it implies that the water there had relatively little acidity -- that is, it was fresh water, like the water you'd find in most ponds or lakes on Earth today.
Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's).
Firmly planted in New York City, Gale, 57, had real estate roots going back to his paternal grandfather, Daniel, who became a broker in 1922 (the Daniel Gale Agency is now part of Sotheby's (nyse: BID - news - people )).
In 1979 a force-ten gale struck unexpectedly in the waters off Fastnet, crashing 40-foot waves over small vessels.
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Curiosity's discovery at its landing site in the equatorial Gale Crater provides the first real ground truth for those observations.
The family of a man swept into the sea in Blackpool during gale-force winds say they "fear the worst" because he cannot swim.
Mr Gerrard, the master of the fishing smack 'Busy', was killed at Burton Bradstock while attempting to rescue the crew of fishing boats being driven ashore in a heavy gale.
The rover is currently investigating a location in Mars' Gale Crater known as Yellowknife Bay, a small depression several hundred metres from the point where it landed back in August.
Grizzled, his peculiar aviator glasses bent and smudged, Nawab tended the household machinery, the air-conditioners, water heaters, refrigerators, and pumps, like an engineer tending the boilers on a foundering steamer in an Atlantic gale.
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