Curiosity Has Just Sent Back a Bleak Image of Its Lonely View on Mars

By Michelle Starr Curiosity is climbing. In the Gale Crater it calls home, the Mars rover has been making its way up an eroded pediment called the Central Butte. It’s studying the weather-worn layers of rock around the base of Mount Sharp, which towers from the centre of the crater. But it’s not just close-ups of rock that …