Scientist Explains the Weird Shiny Thing on Mars
As we reported last week, images from the Curiosity rover showed what looked like a piece of shiny metal sticking out from a rock. Today, Mars Science Laboratory scientist Ronald Sletten from the University of Washington explained that, unsurprisingly, it is actually a part of the rock that is different — harder and more resistant to erosion — than the rest of the rock it’s embedded in.
On Earth, as on Mars, “often you can see knobs or projections on surfaces eroded by the wind, particularly when a harder, less erodible rock is on top,” Sletten said, via an email to Universe Today from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory media relations office. “The rock on top of the projection is likely more resistant to wind erosion and protects the underlying rock from being eroded.”
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Wow, how long did they take to come up with that one. Just how stupid do they think everybody is. Well i guess they are right, because people will believe this guy. Just another thing to keep you busy while they dismantle and destroy the country. They are not on Mars.
Looks like someone left their glasses there IMHO
Looks like a 57 T-Bird with a spare tire covered in the back resting on a pinnacle. Hey, that’s as believable as the bunch of malarkey they said.
So far NASA has explained away every unusual object on the moon and mars found since the 60′s. Does anyone see a pattern here besides me?
That’s a pretty weak explanation.
They should just say,
“Hmm,pretty strange-
I wonder what that is?
Seriously,
when was the last time you something like that naturally occurring in the desert here?
Just because they’re “scientists”, that doesn’t mean that they know everything first of all, and it doesn’t mean we’re going to believe everything they say. Bullshit is still bullshit and we can smell it a mile away.