Mythopoeika
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jimv1 said:...a plaintive wail exactly in the middle of the Katona Scale...
Chavtastic! :lol:
jimv1 said:...a plaintive wail exactly in the middle of the Katona Scale...
Curiosity Rover Identifies Mysterious Bright Object as Plastic
NASA’s Curiosity rover took time out of its busy scooping and vibrating schedule on Oct. 9 to inspect a mysterious bright object that it spotted in the sand near its wheels the day before. Engineers have identified the bright bit as “shred of plastic material, likely benign.”
“Yeah so last night was crazy. When we spotted the object near the rover, we had to quickly come up with a totally new plan,” tweeted Keri Bean, a meteorologist on the rover team, on Oct. 8.
Curiosity had to take a break in its intended schedule of analyzing the Martian soil in order to make sure that the fallen object was not going to interfere with sampling activities. A close-up photo (below) taken with the probe’s Remote Micro-Imager of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) showed that the object was probably a piece of plastic, though it has still not been definitively identified. Engineers will take more pictures of the rover’s surroundings over the coming days to make sure there are no other potential contaminants. NASA will probably have further news about the object during a press conference on Oct. 11.
Similar loose screws and bits have been shed by previous rovers, including the Mars Phoenix Lander and the Opportunity rover.
Mythopoeika said:Plastic trash left by alien tourists, no doubt.
NASA: We Still Don't Know What Those Shiny Particles On Mars Are, But They're Not From The Rover
NASA confirmed this afternoon that some bright particles found in a hole dug by the Curiosity's scooper are actually from Mars and not debris from the rover. This is the second round of shiny mysterious objects the rover has run into while scooping soil at Glenelg. The first was probably a piece of plastic or tape that fell off of the rover itself.
Adam Mann with WiredScience has more:
After last week’s plastic encounter, Curiosity’s science team worried the new particles might be man-made. Since they turned up in scoop holes, however, the granules must have been buried in the subsurface. They likely came from larger minerals that broke down. They might also represent the product of some geological soil process that generates a bright but unknown mineral.
Curiosity, which is 10 weeks into its two-year mission, has now collected three scoops of Martian soil. The third scoop is currently being analyzed by the rover's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument to determine what minerals are in it.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/mars-shi ... z29hAY6pyO
It's a dinosaur fossil! Or a WWII bomber! Or a 1960's Police Box...Mythopoeika said:Apparently there's a rumour of a big NASA announcement regarding the latest experiments Curiosity has performed on Mars...
http://science.slashdot.org/story/1...-shaking-discovery-has-curiosity-made-on-mars
gncxx said:The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they said.
It's a dinosaur fossil! Or a WWII bomber! Or a 1960's Police Box...
I'll start building Thunder Child now.gncxx said:The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they said.
Thought that was what they looked like... a string of blue and green plastic beads! :lol:Monstrosa said:Sorry, that's bullshite.
It's not from the NASA/JPL site which has .gov and some of the english is poor and doesn't make sense.
ETA Plus the image looks like mardi gras beads were badly edited on.
Aww, dang. Well, here was where I had found it. http://science.slashdot.org/story/1...n-mars?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=twitterMonstrosa said:Sorry, that's bullshite.
It's not from the NASA/JPL site which has .gov and some of the english is poor and doesn't make sense.
ETA Plus the image looks like mardi gras beads were badly edited on.
Bigfoot73 said:A shameless bump, but at least the anomalies I'm claiming to have found are quite easy to discern, prominently plasced on individual rocks with nothing but sand in the background!
Looks a lot more like lumps of extruded lava, or slag. Pyro-plastic, rather than organic forms. Thrown out of their source like bombs in the low gravity, full of expanding hot gases in the low atmosphere and cooled fast in the low temperatures.Bigfoot73 said:http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00079/mcam/0079MR0591006000E1_DXXX.jpg
Look at the top of the rock nearest the camera - the Mastcam : could those be fossilised sea anenomes?