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...first morning in the field and Creaser, a geologist, kneels in the red dirt of Queensland's Gulf country, 200 km northwest of Mount Isa. His right hand clutches a crack hammer, which is poised over a piece of rock the size of two bricks. What's inside the rock will make Creaser's day and remind the rest of the party that, for all the wonders this place has yielded, it has much more to give. "Work at Riversleigh," says team leader Mike Archer, "will go on forever...
...used to live here. In 1983, Archer says, "in one rock, in five minutes, we found 35 new kinds of mammal. Not just species - like one kind of kangaroo versus another - but whole groups of things that are as unique as, say, whales are." Two years ago, Nissen and geologist Elizabeth Price discovered a plentiful site on ground that teams had walked over a hundred times previously: a bushfire had cleared away the grass to unveil an ancient graveyard for various extinct species. "At Riversleigh," says Archer's wife, project coprincipal Sue Hand, "there are always these episodes of serendipity...
...scientific inquiry and bounce back off, like a projectile not quite captured by a body’s gravity. Those of us “in science”—the very term conjures images of a chemist fighting off thick fumes of acid or a geologist emerging from a month-long stay in a sticky cave—find ourselves in a world misunderstood by so many others, even ourselves. The frustrations of the intellectual isolation are numerous: I can barely understand my own work at times, yet alone explain it to my friends, should they happen...
...woman set out to explore the Australian outback. Sandy (Toni Collette) is a healthy, hearty geologist, bored and impatient in her role as guide. Hiromitsu (Gotaro Tsunashima) is an emotionally closed businessman who is dangerously insistent on taking the less traveled desert roads. They almost die on one when their SUV gets stuck in the sand...
...Spirit is built to roam, and its cameras have spotted some inviting, 300-ft.-high mounds nearly 1.25 miles (2 km) away. The robot was designed to travel only about half that distance, but there's nothing to say it can't exceed expectations. Matt Golembek, a J.P.L. geologist, thinks Spirit has a shot at capturing the view from the summit of a mound. "Given how smooth and flat the terrain is," he says, "everyone feels pretty comfortable that that might be someplace...