Curiosity can scan the terrain looking for the most target-rich environment, and then drive there where its onboard laboratory can be put to the test.
In the main, he has succeeded, notably through an array of mostly male journalists, activists, ministers, lawyers and academics, including the philosopher Peter Singer and the writer Nat Hentoff, who lay out the arguments and scan the terrain.
Perhaps there, or at another future site, they would use Lidar, a device that scans the terrain with laser pulses to create an extremely precise map.
For more than six years, Predator drones have crisscrossed the tribal areas, scanning the terrain for anyone who might resemble bin Laden.
His barrel followed the scattering movements of laborers below, scanning the terrain like a junkie digging through a McDonald's trash can.
When out walking on the South Downs, the wind in my hair, nothing but rolling hills for miles, I become Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, scanning the terrain during those Monty Python-esque scenes of the fellowship running across the mountaintops of Middle Earth.
As I clambered over the tanks with camera in hand, Vosnos scanned the terrain.
They squatted there, scanning the terrain as intently as a manuscript, searching the dirt for more stones.
Near Mursitpinar, close by the Turkish frontier, men and women gathered on roadsides and hilltops, some scanning the terrain with binoculars, hoping for a glimpse of the peshmerga forces.
As police officers kicked open doors in the Inland Regional Center in the search for the armed assailants who had just massacred 14 county employees, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan was outside scanning the terrain for a safe place to coordinate the sweeping emergency response.
He wanted to give him a thermal sight to scan the surrounding terrain.
