Not to be outdone by its brother, Curiosity has found the first evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars near the Gale Crater.

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Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.

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Gale Crater lies just south of the equator, near the Martian equivalent of northern Australia.

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All of which reduces William Gale, a tax specialist at the Brookings Institution, to something near despair.

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