"Bradbury Landing is the first named site on Mars not marked by an object, but by ephemeral burn scars from [Curiosity's] landing thrusters. Project scientist John Grotzinger describes the site as 'four scour marks with wheel tracks that basically begin from nowhere.'"
It turns out that Bradbury Landing is also a kind of literary site, an interplanetary Newspaper Rock: the tracks left behind by the Curiosity rover are actually a form of Morse code.
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the tracks are a code...how are they read? this fascinates me. Sunday morning java and brain buzz.
ReplyDeleteSusan Dyer
The Moveable Alphabet
I'm wondering WHO is reading the code??? I like thinking about this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, Susan!