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Glenelgs on Earth and Mars to be twinned

The small Scottish community of Glenelg will hold a ceremony later to twin itself with its namesake on Mars.
Nasa's roving robotic laboratory, Curiosity, is headed for a geological feature on the Red Planet that has been called Glenelg.
Nasa's Mars mission team has been using names taken from Canada's Northwest Territories to label the places the rover is visiting.
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Much has been made of the robotic space rover Curiosity heading towards a Martian rock formation, now christened Glenelg.

Several reasons have been advanced for Nasa giving it the same name as that of a West Highland community.
None is definitive, although it has been observed that Glenelg spells the same backwards and forwards, a fact which may be useful in a pub quiz, but is unlikely to have impressed the best brains at Nasa.
Whatever the reason, it is cause enough for Scotland's Glenelg to organise a party.
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Ed ~ Glenelg was named of course after a rock formation near Yellowknife, Canada



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