The conspiracy theories begin: What was the mystery blotch that appears on Mars rover photo ...

Daily Mail UK ^ | 08-09-2012 | James Nye

[Red Badger]

Conspiracy theorists have worked themselves up into a lather over a mysterious blotch visible in the first black and white photographs taken from NASA's new Curiosity rover as it landed on Mars.

The faint but distinctive dot which can be seen on the horizon of the Red Planet was taken by a device on the $2.5 billion robot called its Hazcam and relayed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter back to Earth.

However, two hours later when the satellite made another pass over Curiosity, the rover sent another batch of images that revealed that the blotch had eerily disappeared.

[apillar]

It's a giant sandworm poking it's head out of the ground to see what all the commotion was about.

[Gaffer]

Red effing ink from an agency so politically raped by liberal ideology it isn’t funny. This crap is useless at this point in this turning point of our history.

[arderkrag]

It’s the remnants of that “missile” from last year that managed to miss a whole continent...

[ZX12R]

Obviously it was paranormal mars dust.

[Red Badger]

Then all that red stuff is SPICE????.........hmmmm............

[Beowulf9]

[dartuser]

“Oops, my bad ... forgot to take the lens cap off.”

[arrogantsob]

That damn Marvin up to his old tricks.

[Bender2]

Gadzooks! That mystery blotch is Sheila Jackson Lee's elbow... as she is tearing down the American Flag she said Neil Armstrong put up when Apollo 11 landed there in 1969.

[dfwgator]

[Red Badger]

I could have been a ‘Spice Blow’ caught on camera...........

[bkepley]

LOOK!!! THEY’VE TAKEN COMMENT #1!!! THIS IS IMPOR

[mnehring]

The fact that people are making conspiracies about a blotch is a sad reflection oh the mental state of society.

[Bender2]

Whoa! It says here it can only be a space... herpe!

[freedumb2003]

Clearly it is a Starbucks.

Now the Martians will be up all night.

[Truth29]

"It's a giant sandworm poking it's head out of the ground to see what all the commotion was about."

Well, we could use some of the spice to revived the manned space program.

[dfwgator]

I think that was the rest of this guy's hair.

[cuban leaf]

http://www.nationalledger.com/news-tech/several-photos-show-woman-on-m-235139.shtml#.UCQF86PiF9w

[JohnBrowdie]