What's the big deal? Have the rover play paper so it can move on.
After like 10 years this thing still is working for the most part. Quite amazing really.
Poke it!
Poke it!
Pooooooke it!
It'd be a $1Million poke!
Wind or even knocked by the rover's movements I say. Pebbles are always knocked around by moving objects, so why not from the rover itself?
Mars has it's own Watson in the form of a rock
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maybe it has something to do with the 12 mile high dust devils. It's a planet, not a painting... things move.
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[QUOTE=frozensoda;43580365]maybe it has something to do with the 12 mile high dust devils. It's a planet, not a painting... things move.
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The fact that all the other pebbles are still in the exact same place indicates differently, but it'll probably be some weather phenomenon, or maybe the wheels somehow flung it there and NASA is just trying to create some publicity.
[QUOTE]Opportunity’s front right steering actuator has stopped working, so Squyres identified that as the possible culprit behind the whole mystery.
Each wheel on the rover has its own actuator. Should an actuator jam or otherwise fail, the robot’s mobility can suffer. In the case of this wheel, it can no longer turn left or right. “So if you do a turn in place on bedrock,” continued Squyres, “as you turn that wheel across the rock, it’s gonna kinda ‘chatter.’” This jittery motion across the bedrock may have propelled the rock out of place, “tiddlywinking” the object from its location and flipping it a few feet away from the rover.[/QUOTE]
Add Mars low gravity and it doesn't seem so unfeasible.
[QUOTE=Explosions;43578667]Yes there are aliens on mars and they decided the best course for communication was subtly placing a rock in a way that could easily be dismissed and then continued hiding and avoiding all other contact.[/QUOTE]
they just dont get out that much okay and they are very shy, I mean it does have a laser that can burn holes through solid rock and is nuclear powered so they can't even dump dust on the solar panels like spirit and opportunity
[QUOTE=Sableye;43582004]they just dont get out that much okay and they are very shy, I mean it does have a laser that can burn holes through solid rock and is nuclear powered so they can't even dump dust on the solar panels like spirit and opportunity[/QUOTE]
..this is Opportunity though?
[QUOTE=meppers;43578531]I was going to say that a powerful wind blew it there but all the other pebbles in the two pictures remain unchanged :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
I tried to match the two images together to compare stuff. There's a few that've moved (or maybe it's just a trick of light since these were different times of day and the rover has moved a slight distance toward or away from the spot), but the best explanation is a somewhat distant dust devil chucking some debris that direction.
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10572953/web_important/rocks.gif[/img]
looks like a micrometeorite impact
Lets take a moment to acknowledge people like this still exist
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[QUOTE=dai;43584614]I tried to match the two images together to compare stuff. There's a few that've moved (or maybe it's just a trick of light since these were different times of day and the rover has moved a slight distance toward or away from the spot), but the best explanation is a somewhat distant dust devil chucking some debris that direction.
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10572953/web_important/rocks.gif[/img][/QUOTE]
Most of the smallest pieces don't appear to have moved at all, so wind moving the rock there seems to be out of the question in my opinion. The tiny pebble parallel to the furthest right protrusion of the rock in question is in the exact same spot, and appears to be much smaller, so any wind that could move the rock in question would've surely moved that pebble, as well as the others around the rock in question. It's quite odd.
If you focus on any one object in that .gif you'll see that everything appears to be in the exact same place.
Maybe all the other "pebbles" are embedded in the ground, or just bits of larger rock sticking out.
NASA discovered prothean ruins.
space ghosts
duh
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