Posted on 10/09/2012 3:23:28 PM PDT by posterchild
A small piece of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has apparently fallen off into the Red Planet dirt, scientists announced today (Oct. 9).
Curiosity team members spotted the odd bright object on Sunday (Oct. 7) while studying photos of the rover's first Martian soil-scooping activity. Curiosity then spent much of Monday photographing the scrap further, allowing researchers to determine that it likely came off the 1-ton rover — though they're still not sure what exactly it is, or if its absence will affect Curiosity's mission appreciably.
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LOL!
Nothing to see here, move along. It’s obviously just a piece of snake skin.
The local HOA would be on them like flies on sh*t.
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