Curiosity reaches next destination, spots unexplained Mars light

The Space Reporter ^ | Monday, April 07, 2014 | Andrew McDonald,

[BenLurkin]

Bad pixel?

[dfwgator]

[Dagnabitt]

Burning Man, obviously.

[onedoug]

Reflection off a piece of mica?

[Smokin' Joe]

Naw, what you're seeing is a reflection of swamp gas off a weather balloon, intensified by unusual atmospheric conditions...now everyone, look right here, please.

>>FLASH<<

[Mastador1]

They're just artifacts left behind by Marvin's dog K-9.

[RegulatorCountry]

Doesn’t look like a bad pixel, noise or other electronic artifact to me. There’s almost a “glow” to it, a gradation from white to the gray of the mountains in the background. If it’s a physical formation of some sort it’s either vertical or the light is refracting to create an illusion of verticality.

Wonder what’s forming the haze in the distance, by the way? Just dust?

[Veggie Todd]

Sheila Jackson Lee says it’s from the flag we planted there.

[Zeppo]

Some stagehand taking a smoking break.

/s

[ansel12]

Millennials must be running NASA, they are too young to remember the old rip away pull tab on beer cans, and how the aluminum could reflect the light like that.

Sheesh, don’t they know anything?

[null and void]

[TigersEye]

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It’s Martian bigfoot.

[jsanders2001]

I’m going with alien smokestack. They probably thought we’d left and decided to grill some steaks in their underground bunker...

[faucetman]

It’s the Russians.

[FredZarguna]

[smokingfrog]

[BykrBayb]

[dfwgator]

[smoothsailing]