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...rest of the south in its recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated-iron roofs. Merchants have opened new stores. The hospital may not have reliable water, electricity or supplies - "They don't have soap to wash the floor, so you work in the dirt in a surgical ward," says Filippo De Pasquale, an Italian volunteer doctor - but at least it has been dug out from the bush. Should negotiations between the rebels and the Sudanese government end the two-decades-long civil war, it's these types of basic necessities - roofs, shops, trees - that...
...possibility is that the soil, while now dry, was once wet. Water rising to the surface or sinking down from above could have caused the dirt to congeal, perhaps leaving salty deposits that help hold it together. The Viking probes investigated similar-looking callused patches back in 1976. Investigators on those missions dubbed the features duracrust. The science team working this trip is eager to dig around in the stuff...
Something the scientists do know is that once Spirit has its wheels in the dirt, it's going to act fast. Almost immediately, it will extend its robotic arm and begin sampling the soil directly in front of it. This will allow it both to calibrate its instruments and get the data flow streaming back to Earth. The Apollo astronauts used to do something similar, spending their first moments on the moon collecting what they called a contingency sample--a clump of lunar soil and rock they would tuck into a spacesuit pocket so they would have something to show...
That all the dirt on the Bushes is true is not the point; the trouble is that tearing down the President is not enough to elect a new one. We need look no further than the regime changes of Afghanistan and Iraq to see signs that the public is justified in regarding “Out With the Bad” as an incomplete proposition...
...such grand goals we forget to ask the simplest questions. In this case it would be WHY? With a planet already inhabited with millions suffering from disease, hunger, poverty, and illiteracy, why would we spend billions to confirm Mars' atmospheric and sedimentary traits? It's red and full of dirt; that's great to know. How about that money be spent to feed people or provide health coverage for those who can't afford it, or better yet, lets teach people to read. Now those are grand goals and ideas which we should be exploring. This is an asinine idea...