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Rover Curiosity sees more shiny objects on Mars

Summary: While scooping up soil samples the new Mars rover saw more shiny objects that haven't been identified yet.

By Andy Smith | October 19, 2012 -- 21:14 GMT (14:14 PDT)

When NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, stopped to sample a scoopful of Martian soil its cameras recorded a tiny, shiny object on top of the soil. Another shiny object had been found days before and was identified as possibly a piece of debris that came from the spacecraft. But more shiny objects have been spotted confirming that the newer ones are likely to be native to Mars.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Topic: Nasa / Space

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Oooooooooooooh .. Shiny pebble sized objects on Mars.

Must be a slow news day. Grin.

kenosha77a
19 October, 2012 21:40

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- And I hear that many of the Apple faithful
  
  are already lining up to buy one.
  
  William Farrel
  20 October, 2012 01:50
  
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Rush Time

there's gold in dem der planet.

it would be finny if it was gold.

Scatcatpdx
19 October, 2012 22:13

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- Gold on Mars
  
  I cant wait to see it on the discovery channel, Planet Mars: Deep Space Dredging
  
  Carl Dunlap
  23 October, 2012 23:58
  
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Oh it must be artificial

...because it is shiny and is on Mars. Sure. And nothing natural anywhere on earth is shiny, either, puh-lease. Now, show me a skull and a couple of hip and thigh bones close-up in high res, you will have a news story.

D.J. 43
20 October, 2012 00:33

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My daughter

My daughter (6) instantly said: Dinosaur Bone!

Let's all hope she's right; would be a pretty epic find. ;)

Han CNX
20 October, 2012 02:09

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- Rover, go fetch the bone! Good Boy!
  
  Actually, that would be VERY epic if those objects were organic in composition.
  
  kenosha77a
  20 October, 2012 02:37
  
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Mortar line

If you look at the pyramid rock in that enhanced image, doesn't the bottom edge of it look like a smoothed out mortar line ? its actually recessed a bit as well. Pretty cool. I hope curiosity has enough power to flip it over.

Merrr
20 October, 2012 16:03

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I for one ...

I for one welcome our our new tiny shiny Martian overlords.

jaypeg
20 October, 2012 18:14

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