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[img]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PIA16225-580x517.jpg[/img]
While scooping its first samples of Martian soil, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured the image above, which shows what seems to be a small, seemingly metallic sliver or chip of… something… resting on the ground. Is it a piece of the rover? Or some other discarded fleck of the MSL descent mechanisms? Or perhaps an exotic Martian pebble of some sort? Nobody knows for sure yet, but needless to say the soil samples have taken a back seat to this new finding for the time being.
See a ChemCam image of the object below:
[img]http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/CR0_403005421EDR_F0050104CCAM01062M_-580x580.jpg[/img]
The ChemCam image, although monochrome, reveals some interesting and curiously organic-looking edges on the object… although it could be a bit of something that came loose from the rover itself. Perhaps a bit of plastic wrap or tape from a cable? Or a flake of metal from the back shell?
Or, as MSNBC’s Alan Boyle jokingly (?) suggested, another piece of “Martian macaroni”?
The MSL mission page states:
[quote]Curiosity’s first scooping activity appeared to go well on Oct. 7. Subsequently, the rover team decided to refrain from using the rover’s robotic arm on Oct. 8 due to the detection of a bright object on the ground that might be a piece from the rover. Instead of arm activities during the 62nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission, Curiosity is acquiring additional imaging of the object to aid the team in identifying the object and assessing possible impact, if any, to sampling activities.[/quote]
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Source:[url]http://www.universetoday.com/97774/curiosity-finds-something-on-martian-surface/[/url]
holy wank
ALIENS
It's petrified alien semen
swamp gas
It's one of the War of the Worlds tripods, NASA needs to move Curiosity away or we're gonna get invaded for a few days.
Oh shit a Martian IED
It's probably just something loose from the rover, I wouldn't get too excited
This might be the only piece left of an alien civilization that died long ago.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;37973145]This might be the only piece left of an alien civilization that died long ago.[/QUOTE]
chances are those probably wouldnt be found lying on the ground, they'd probably be buried deep below the surface
[QUOTE=aznz888;37973168]chances are those probably wouldnt be found lying on the ground, they'd probably be buried deep below the surface[/QUOTE]
What if that's just the tip of the iceburg? :O
looks like an upside-down mettalic seahorse
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;37973301]What if that's just the tip of the iceburg? :O[/QUOTE]
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Well fuck.
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Crab people coming to fuck us up.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;37973369]Crab people coming to fuck us up.[/QUOTE]
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Prothean beacon. Calling it.
It's part of the Void Dragon
Ave Omnissiah
please
please let the curiosity return a photo like this
[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sDD-ywVO1Fg/T7CALJ8wldI/AAAAAAAAAB4/hcnRp69tlT0/s1600/javik.jpg[/img]
Its a piece of a viking ship.
[QUOTE=MajorMattem;37973145]This might be the only piece left of an alien civilization that died long ago.[/QUOTE]
As the last surviving Martian I can confirm this
It's a weather balloon
The last screw when putting together furniture is always in the last goddamn place I think to look for it. Fuck you mars. You probably have all my missing socks too.
Either swamp weather or ancient aliens that communicated with the first civilizations on Earth.
Great things have small beginnings...
[QUOTE=BreenIsALie;37972873]Oh shit a Martian IED[/QUOTE]
Go back to your own planet martians. Here stealing our jobs.
It has to be something from Rover/Descent module itself. It's just laying on top of the dirt. If that thing had been sitting there for ages and ages, it wouldn't be on top of the dirt at all. And it's not just on top of the dirt, but even the small pebbles. It's nothing
[QUOTE=GunFox;37974007]The last screw when putting together furniture is always in the last goddamn place I think to look for it. Fuck you mars. You probably have all my missing socks too.[/QUOTE]
Why would it be in the second to last place?
"Okay I found it, but now I'm going to go search somewhere else."
[QUOTE=TheTalon;37974209]It has to be something from Rover/Descent module itself. It's just laying on top of the dirt. If that thing had been sitting there for ages and ages, it wouldn't be on top of the dirt at all. And it's not just on top of the dirt, but even the small pebbles. It's nothing[/QUOTE]
Or maybe thats what they want you to think?
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