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This image released by NASA on Wednesday, taken by cameras aboard the Curiosity rover, shows the Martian horizon. It's one of dozens of images that will be made into a panorama. Curiosity landed Sunday on a two-year mission to study whether its landing site ever could have supported microbial life.

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This image released by NASA on Wednesday, taken by cameras aboard the Curiosity rover, shows the Martian horizon. It's one of dozens of images that will be made into a panorama. Curiosity landed Sunday on a two-year mission to study whether its landing site ever could have supported microbial life.

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