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About That ‘Flower’ on Mars….

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 21:10

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A bright and interestingly shaped tiny pebble shows up among the soil on a rock, called ‘Gillespie Lake,’ which was imaged by Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager on Dec. 19, 2012, the 132nd sol, or Martian day of Curiosity’s mission on Mars. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.

The Curiosity rover is having a “field day” exploring the rocks in shallow depression that scientists call ‘Yellowknife Bay’, which is chockfull of light toned rocks. One small rock or feature – the size of a pebble or large grain of sand, actually – has caught the attention of many as it looks like a little flower. Keep in mind that this pebble is about 2 millimeters in size (a US dime coin is 1.35mm thick) so that’s really teeny tiny. But through the power of zooming in to the high resolution images of the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, there have been people who are convinced this is some sort of flora on Mars, or perhaps a fossil.

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