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Curiosity Finds…SOMETHING…on Martian Surface
While scooping its first samples of Martian soil, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the image above, which shows what seems to be a small, seemingly metallic sliver or chip of… something… resting on the ground. Is it a piece of the rover? Or some other discarded fleck of the MSL descent mechanisms? Or perhaps an exotic Martian pebble of some sort? Nobody knows for sure yet, but needless to say the soil samples have taken a back seat to this new finding for the time being.
See a ChemCam image of the object below.
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© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 10 comments |
Post tags: Curiosity, Mars, metal, MSL, object
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2012-10-08 22:44:48
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They’ve already said that it was a piece of the rover, but it DOES look like a Martian dropped a dime (or their equivalent).
Could be a piece of one of the OTHER rovers we’ve sent there, too. Curiosity isn’t the first one, it’s just the latest one.
If it was something really meaningful, we wouldn’t know, “they” wouldn’t let us know about it…