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Another Weird Shiny Thing on Mars

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Green lines point to a shiny protuberance on rock imaged by the Curiosity rover on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems. Image processing 2di7 & titanio44 on Flickr.

The Curiosity Mars rover has found some strange-looking little things on Mars – you’ve likely heard of the Mars ‘flower,’ the piece of benign plastic from the rover itself, and other bright flecks of granules in the Martian soil. Now the rover has imaged a small metallic-looking protuberance on a rock. Visible in the image above (the green lines point to it), the protuberance appears to have a high albedo and even projects a shadow on the rock below. The image was taken with the right Mastcam on Curiosity on Sol 173 — January 30, 2013 here on Earth — (see the original raw image here), and was pointed out to us by Elisabetta Bonora, an image editing enthusiast from Italy.

“The corresponding image from the left Mastcam is not there,” said Bonora via email, “which is a real shame because this would allow us to make an anaglyph.”

See a close-up of the object below.
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    • Anonymous

      They won’t show you the two cities on Mars, inhabited by humans. Curiosity is a silly, to keep the sheeple occupied. It’s hot such a baaaaaaad game.

      • Anonymous

        Do you really think the Decepticons and Autobots will let man live on Mars? Or am I wrong and is Mars the planet where the Skrull’s will enter our Solar System and launch their attack from?

    • Blackie the faithful border collie

      They spent all that money and went all that way with all that gadgetry and all those cameras, just to not show us stuff. spoil sports

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