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Mars rover Curiosity detects bright object
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:45 pm
by DeltaV
Mars rover Curiosity scoops, detects bright object
Probably a rover part. Or the tip of a buried starship.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:50 am
by choff
Martian periscope, they're checking out the rover from the hide-e-hole.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:11 am
by DeltaV
Technologically-advanced anaerobic sandworms was one of my next choices, after Illuminati-planted fake artifact.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 4:57 am
by DeltaV
Chem-Cam close-up. Sandworm with a shark-like mouth and small pair of eyes on the nose.
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:13 am
by GIThruster
Looks like they found life! Here's the 400X close-up:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt ... Ag&dur=886
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 2:27 pm
by paperburn1
we spent how much and nobody put a macro lens on this thing??!??
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:25 pm
by DeltaV
Note the non-random arrangement of the "boulders". Apparently it was interrupted while building a cabin.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:53 pm
by CaptainBeowulf
Suggestion now seems to be that it is a piece of plastic that fell off the rover itself:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story ... rover.html
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:47 pm
by TallDave
Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:17 pm
by paperburn1
TallDave wrote:Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.
They had a larger budget and the old school Protestant work ethic to help. by the way has anybody seen my tie clasp?
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 4:06 am
by Tom Ligon
I recall that Opportunity spotted a flattened spot in the soil ... had some characteristics of a large footprint, and found some metallic cloth. Both turned out to be from their bouncing air bag landing.
Later I think it encountered its heat shield.
I'd be unsurprised to find a few fragments of, say, some frangible bolts.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:15 pm
by DeltaV
TallDave wrote:Sloppy. You'd think they could keep their sound stage clean. Apollo never had these problems.
Any NSF regulars know the story behind picture 2 ( 1R403751100EFFBWGXP1311R0M1.JPG )?
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index. ... c=4075.765
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:04 am
by DeltaV
Dang, that looked just like a fusion reactor power unit and two Neeko'rak landers on a snowy horizon.
But it's just the underside of the Opportunity rover seen through a fish-eye lens.
Opportunity :: Rear Hazcam :: Sol 3105
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/ ... 11R0M1.JPG
get CSI
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:18 am
by zbarlici
get CSI on this! They will figure it out for sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:11 pm
by djolds1
DeltaV wrote:Dang, that looked just like a fusion reactor power unit and two Neeko'rak landers on a snowy horizon.
Neeko'rak landers?
