Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2016

29 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2016 PLANETOLOGY pages, which speak for them- selves, were tak- en on 8 Septem- ber 2016, and illustrate at best the final stage of Curios- ity at Murray Buttes, at the end of which the rover began a last campaign of soil perforations before resum- ing its journey further up the southern slope of Mount Sharp. T his outstand- ing picture of crumbling sedi- mentary rocks al- lows to imagine the amount of in- formation on the Martian geologi- cal history that is contained in these layers, which re- semble pages of a giant stone book. [NASA/JPL-Cal- tech/MSSS] n